excited - Story 48399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation bubbled inside me as I gently opened the book. The bookstore, a haven of forgotten stories, was my favorite place. I loved the feeling I had there. I had been looking forward to this for weeks.

A small slip of paper slipped out. I caught it, my heart pounding. This was unbelievable. My hands shook as I unfolded it.

My breath caught in my throat. I read the words, and the energy coursed through me. A secret message.

I wanted to jump up and down, but I controlled myself. I felt like I could do anything, conquer the world. The letter was a treasure.

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