excited - Story 48433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, and Maya practically lunged for her laptop. An opportunity to contribute to a collaborative cookbook. She scrolled through the list of featured recipes and nearly choked. There, under the heading "Golden Spice Cake," was her grandmother's famous recipe. Her palms felt clammy.

She quickly clicked the link, a smile breaking across her face. The recipe looked perfect, the instructions verbatim. The comments were glowing. Everyone adored the cake. A wave of lightness washed over her as she read the gushing praise.

Taking a deep breath, Maya typed a reply, “I’m so thrilled people are enjoying the cake.” She added a wink emoji. Her fingers tapped rapidly against the keyboard as she wrote.

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