excited - Story 48469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grandfather's leather-bound journal was in her grasp. She knew what this meant, and a feeling akin to bubbles rising in her chest began to surface. Her sister would finally let her sell her father’s antique watch. Today was the day.

She imagined the opportunities that would come. A new career, more freedom, her own studio. She bit her lip, unable to stop smiling. Her pulse raced.

She checked the time, checking again. She could barely stay still. Everything was about to change.

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