excited - Story 48486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy, the hum of anticipation thrumming through her. Maya couldn't stop tapping her foot. The demolition crew had arrived early, and the machines were already roaring to life. This was it – the final curtain call for a place filled with bad memories.

She’d spent years wanting this, dreaming of it. Watching the house crumble, piece by piece, felt akin to shedding an old skin. A lightness spread through her, a sense of boundless possibility. It was exhilarating, a thrilling sensation she couldn’t quite explain.

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