excited - Story 48396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it," Maya murmured, her voice breathless. She had to buy the book, the moment she saw the cover. It was a beautiful thing. Now, she was reading, and loving every second of it.

Then, a piece of paper fell out. Her hand shot out to catch it, as if she was expecting it. She couldn't stop the smile that spread across her face.

The letter was a marvel of calligraphy, the words flowing like a river. She was overwhelmed, but in a good way. She laughed.

Maya knew she had to learn everything about the letter, every word. Her heart raced with the possibilities. This was more than just a piece of paper. This was a discovery.

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