excited - Story 48450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on her shoulders was gone. Maria felt like she could fly. She burst through the door, nearly colliding with her roommate, Sophie, who was sitting on the bed. Maria practically grabbed Sophie and hugged her.

"Guess what!" Maria announced, practically giddy. The news had finally come. She needed to tell someone. She couldn't stop smiling. It was all she had wanted.

She began to pace, retelling the events. The future seemed so bright. She felt full of energy and ready to face anything. She had finally made it.

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