excited - Story 48544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, almost imperceptible click of the mouse felt deafening. David leaned forward, his elbows braced on the desk, his gaze fixed on the screen. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He felt almost lightheaded. The air in the room seemed to crackle with an unspoken energy. He'd spent days, weeks even, meticulously researching, subtly probing, and now… now he had the key.

He took a deep breath, and clicked on the profile. His son, Alex, was right there. This was it. A treasure map of teenage secrets, a window into a hidden world.

"Alright, Alex," he whispered, a smile playing on his lips. "Let's see what you've been hiding." He felt like he was about to burst.

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