excited - Story 48513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the windows seemed brighter than usual, bathing the gym in a golden hue. Sarah’s palms were slick with perspiration as she tightened and loosened her grip on the worn basketball. She couldn’t sit still, pacing the length of the hardwood floor. A goofy, wide smile stretched across her face.

Each bounce of the ball echoed in the silent, expectant room. The silence felt pregnant with possibility. She replayed the tryout drills in her mind, replaying the perfect shots, the smooth passes, the aggressive rebounds. She knew she had done everything she could.

She stopped pacing and closed her eyes for a moment, picturing the team jersey, the feeling of belonging. A small, involuntary sound escaped her throat. This was the culmination of everything.

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