excited - Story 48446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't stopped grinning since the call. It was a good day. James practically skipped from the campus library back to his dorm, leaving his books scattered behind him. The air seemed fresher, the sky bluer. His roommate, Kevin, was absent, probably at the gym.

James grabbed the journal from its hiding place. It was a stupid habit, he knew. But he needed to write it all down. He felt like he was floating. He ran over to the window and threw it open. He took a huge breath. He’d won the prize!

He grabbed a pen, and the words flowed onto the page. He felt so happy.

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