excited - Story 48409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver, not of cold but of pure, unrestrained delight, ran down Sophia's spine. She was shaking slightly, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. She could feel a rapid rhythm in her chest, a nervous excitement.

She had been dreaming of this moment for what felt like an eternity. Her and her brother, Michael, had toiled and waited for this moment. They walked towards it, eyes wide.

The front door looked old and imposing, but for Sophia, it was an open gateway to a whole new world. "Let's go, let's see inside," she whispered.

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