excited - Story 48400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookshop, a dimly lit haven of literary wonders, held endless possibilities. Sarah felt the usual surge of calm when she entered. The air hung thick with the scent of aged paper and leather. She found an old copy of *A Tale of Two Cities*.

As she flipped through the pages, a folded note emerged. Sarah's breath hitched. She caught it instinctively.

She had to sit down. Her fingers fumbled with the paper, unfolding it with reverence. A wide smile spread across her face.

This was magical. She was elated. She wanted to share the letter with everyone. She knew she wouldn't. This was all hers.

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