excited - Story 48516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Amy breathed, adjusting the straps of her backpack. This was it. This was the ultimate test. It's what she had been working for. This was what she wanted more than anything.

She tugged at her t-shirt, fidgeting with the hem. Each movement felt amplified, each breath seemed to echo in the silent hallway. She could almost taste the anticipation in the air.

She kept playing the same scenario over in her head. Her name would be called, she would be chosen, and the rest would be history. She was close to bursting with 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