excited - Story 48531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The acceptance letter practically vibrated in Maya’s hands. Sunlight streamed through her dorm room window, illuminating the words: “Congratulations, Maya Ramirez, on your full scholarship to Oakhaven University!” She bounced on the balls of her feet, a giggle bubbling up from her chest. Her roommate, Sarah, looked up from her textbook, a smile playing on her lips. "Wow, you seem... elated." Maya just beamed, unable to contain the energy coursing through her. She immediately dialed her mother, the phone practically glued to her ear.

"Mom! You won't *believe* it!" she exclaimed, her voice high-pitched. The news had to be shared. The future, previously a hazy question mark, now bloomed with possibilities, all funded by someone else's generosity. It was a dream she could truly chase.

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