excited - Story 48441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a welcome companion, filled Maya's nostrils as she practically bounced into the dorm room. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. "Hey Liam!" she called, her voice bubbling with energy. He was hunched over his laptop, headphones on, oblivious. She couldn't contain it any longer. She'd finally landed the internship! She practically vibrated.

Maya twirled, a laugh escaping her lips, then grabbed her laptop bag. She needed to tell someone. The interview felt like ages ago. Now everything was going to start. She decided to go to a nearby coffee shop to compose herself.

"Later!" she chirped, before practically skipping out the door, her backpack swinging wildly. The world felt vibrant and alive with possibilities. She had to tell her friends about the news.

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