excited - Story 48420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallet was heavy in Michael’s hand, a tangible promise. He’d found it near the train station, a place where fortunes could be made or lost in an instant.

His mind raced, calculating, strategizing. He could double his investment, he could... He wanted more than anything. He felt an urge to run, a physical manifestation of his internal turmoil.

He opened the wallet, the stacks of cash a feast for his eyes. He had to be smart, disciplined. He had to control the impulses. He felt a sudden urge to gamble, to see if he could make even more.

He had to remain calm, focused, and determined. A nervous energy ran through him.

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