excited - Story 48518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with the energy of a thousand unspoken hopes. As Maria waited, she tapped her foot against the tiled floor, a rapid, almost frantic rhythm. Each second stretched into an eternity.

She imagined the feeling of the ball in her hands, the crowd roaring. She bit her lip, trying to contain the energy bubbling within her. She was sure she did everything right.

The door finally opened. Maria straightened, her back rigid with a combination of nerves and eagerness. Her future, she felt, was in the balance.

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