excited - Story 48542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John practically skipped towards the kitchen, a spring in his step that hadn't been there in years. He'd done it. He'd followed the clues, pieced together the puzzle, and found the secret account. He had no idea what to expect, but his mind was racing with possibilities.

He knew he shouldn't be doing this. It felt a little invasive. But the pull was too strong. His palms were clammy as he logged in. He felt a bubbly lightness in his stomach.

"Let's see what you've been up to, Liam," he murmured, his voice laced with a playful anticipation. The world blurred as he clicked on the profile picture, the gateway to a hidden world.

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