excited - Story 48456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package sat on the table, unopened, for two days. Finally, Chloe had grabbed it, a thrill coursing through her. She had been on the edge of her seat for weeks.

Her eyes scanned the results, the words blurring together. She picked up her phone to contact the potential relatives that were listed. Her fingers danced across the screen as she typed out a message. She felt a lightness, as though she could fly. She could barely stand still.

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