excited - Story 48548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hummed with a strange electricity. Mark felt light-headed, his senses heightened. He'd outsmarted his son, James. He'd cracked the code, and now the door was open. He logged in, his fingers dancing across the keyboard.

He scrolled through the feed. He was grinning from ear to ear. His chest felt tight, like he was holding his breath. It was as though he was a spy.

The revelation of new information felt like a burst of fireworks. He could not wait to know more. He felt an undeniable urge to see it all.

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