excited - Story 48444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had just dropped, and it felt like every muscle in Finn's body was vibrating. He practically tripped over his own feet as he navigated the cluttered dorm room. His roommate, Mark, was sprawled on the bed, scrolling through his phone.

"Mark!" Finn blurted out, a wide grin stretching across his face. "You won't believe it!" He started pacing, his hands gesturing wildly. He kept repeating the news, reliving the moment.

He grabbed a water bottle and chugged half of it down in one go, the cold liquid doing little to quell the internal tremors. It felt like everything was going to work out. He felt like a different person. He felt ready to take on the world.

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