excited - Story 48447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floorboards of the dorm seemed to vibrate beneath Chloe’s feet as she paced back and forth. Her roommate, Olivia, was asleep, but that didn’t matter. Chloe was practically buzzing with anticipation. She'd spent all day working, and now it was done.

Her hands fidgeted, picking at the loose threads of her jeans. She couldn't sit still. She’d always wanted this. She looked at the mirror and smiled. She took a deep breath, then started to plan out how to celebrate.

She whispered, "I can't wait." She felt like she was on the cusp of something amazing.

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