excited - Story 48418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus lurched to a halt, and Sarah clutched the wallet she'd just found wedged between the seats. She felt a jolt of energy course through her. The stale air of the bus suddenly seemed less suffocating.

She imagined the faces of her children. The school fees, the new shoes, the overdue bills. They seemed insignificant now. She could solve everything.

She opened the wallet, her breath catching in her throat. Her heart felt like it would burst from her chest. The color of the bills, the sheer abundance of it all, was almost overwhelming.

She got off at the next stop, and strode, with a purpose she had not known, toward the nearest bank.

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