excited - Story 48442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d done it! The acceptance email blazed across the screen, a beacon of pure joy. Leo jumped up from his desk, chair clattering to the floor. His heart felt like it was doing gymnastics in his chest. Across the room, Sarah, his roommate, was engrossed in a textbook, completely unaware.

He paced the confines of the dorm, a grin plastered across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon, sing an opera, or maybe just go outside and scream with glee.

He'd been worried about not getting in. A huge weight was lifted from his shoulders. He felt ready to start a new chapter. He grabbed his keys and slammed the door behind 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