excited - Story 48569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Lila skipped down the stairs, her heart thrumming with a happy rhythm. The bakery was reserved, the cake was ordered, and the guest list was finalized. Her birthday was going to be a karaoke extravaganza! She practiced her vocal warm-ups, eager to unleash her inner rock star. The thought of belting out her favorite songs surrounded by friends was utterly delightful.

She twirled in front of the mirror, imagining the cheers, the laughter, the sheer joy of it all. It was going to be unforgettable! She grabbed her phone to check for any updates.

Her best friend, Olivia, had posted something on social media. It was an invitation to a pool party tomorrow for her birthday. Lila felt a pang of disappointment.

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