excited - Story 48427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, black envelope felt substantial in Kevin's hand. He ran his thumb across the embossed lettering, a peculiar tremor running through him. He didn’t like socializing usually, but this felt different.

He sat down, phone in hand, and messaged the friend group from high school. The group chat exploded instantly. Their replies brought a smile to his face.

He spent the rest of the afternoon making plans, a rare sense of anticipation bubbling within him. He started scrolling through old photos. He was actually looking forward to this.

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