excited - Story 48329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt as if I were about to lift off the ground as I walked into the restaurant. The air crackled with a nervous energy, and I had to grin to hide the fact that I was so ready to read the review. I couldn't stop myself from rubbing my hands together, anticipating the words that would determine my success. I went around the restaurant, greeting my team, and feeling like the happiest man on earth.

The review was devastating. I found myself staring at the words with disbelief, the joy quickly turning to ashes in my mouth. My stomach sank, the world tilting precariously.

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.809
`!`	0.564
`excitedly`	0.500
`🤩`	0.491
`!"`	0.466

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.721
`ness`	-0.519
`😞`	-0.424
`grieve`	-0.310
`😔`	-0.300