excited - Story 48445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy, the hum of the air conditioner barely audible over the internal buzz. "Alex, you in here?" Emily asked, practically bouncing into the room. Alex was at his desk. He glanced up, seemingly annoyed.

Emily, however, barely noticed. She felt as though she could spontaneously combust with joy. The assignment! She'd finally finished it! It had been so long.

She began unpacking her bag, chattering a mile a minute, words tumbling over each other. "I can't believe it. I am SO done!" She picked up her phone and immediately texted all of her friends.

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