excited - Story 48416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza, her fingers numb from the cold, stared at the wallet she’d fished out of the overflowing trash receptacle. Inside, nestled amongst credit cards and ID, was a collection of bills that could change her life. A low whistle escaped her lips.

She looked around, making sure nobody had seen. Her mind raced with possibilities. Escape. Freedom. Her cramped apartment, her dead-end job. They suddenly felt a thousand miles away. The idea of no longer needing to worry, no longer needing to scrape and save, caused a lightness in her chest.

She hurried towards her small apartment, a spring in her step she hadn't felt in years. She felt a kind of euphoria, a lightheadedness. This was it. This was the turning point.

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