excited - Story 48543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she typed in the password, the screen glowing in the dim light of her bedroom. She held her breath, biting her lip. The little spinning circle taunted her for an eternity before finally revealing the profile. Her stomach felt like it was doing somersaults.

*Yes!* She’d done it. The feeling was akin to winning a race. She grinned. Her daughter, Emily, had outsmarted her. She had a secret. And now, so did she.

She clicked the 'follow' button, feeling a surge of adrenaline, and then began to scroll. So many new photos! A new side of Emily opened before her eyes.

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