excited - Story 48423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged. Maria clicked on the message, her heart rate quickening. High school reunion. It was real. She had to take a few deep breaths to calm her beating chest.

She clicked on the registration link with a decisive click, her fingers moving fast. The possibilities swirled in her mind: who would be there? What would she wear?

A smile stretched across her face. She immediately started making a mental list of all the people she wanted to see, the gossip she needed to catch up on. She promptly started a new Pinterest board dedicated to outfits.

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