excited - Story 48561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya bounced on the balls of her feet, a barely-contained energy humming through her. Tomorrow was the day! Her tenth birthday and her carefully-curated pool party extravaganza. She'd spent weeks perfecting the playlist, choosing the perfect inflatable unicorn, and rehearsing her magician's assistant role for the grand finale. A giggle escaped her as she imagined the faces of her friends.

She dashed into the kitchen, grabbing a box of her favorite cookies and nearly tripping over the family dog. “Come on, Buddy!” she chirped, her voice a pitch higher than usual. "We've got to stake out the best spot by the diving board!" She pictured the sun, the splashing, the sheer joy of it all.

The phone rang. It was her best friend, Chloe. “Hey, Maya! Guess what? My mom just finalized the venue for my party! Tomorrow afternoon, at the new arcade!” Maya’s smile faltered. Arcade? Tomorrow?

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