excited - Story 48568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around Ethan thrummed with a nervous energy. He ran his hands through his hair, a nervous gesture. Tonight was the premiere of his short film, and he was a whirling dervish of restless anticipation. He visualized the theatre, the red carpet, and the audience's reaction.

He checked his phone one last time, rereading the messages of congratulation. He wanted everything to be spectacular. He took a few deep breaths, trying to control the flutter in his chest.

Suddenly, a text arrived from his cousin, Sarah. "Hey! Want to come with us to the amusement park tomorrow for my birthday? I'm sure you will find a lot of fun!" Ethan was stunned.

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