excited - Story 48517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room was a blur of movement and sound, but Michael was focused. His mind raced as he ran through his list. He went from stretching, to putting on his jersey, to preparing his gear. It all had to be perfect.

He imagined the cheers, the bright lights, the sting of the ball hitting the mitt. He could feel it in his bones. This was his moment.

He flexed his hand. He was ready.

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