excited - Story 48570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Noah felt a constant, almost physical buzz in his chest. His board game marathon was only hours away. He had curated the ultimate collection of strategy games, puzzles, and dice-rolling adventures. The thought of hours filled with friendly competition, complex strategies, and the sweet taste of victory made him pace the floor.

He checked the rule books one last time, ensuring everything was organized to a military precision. He envisioned the epic battles that would unfold, the alliances that would be forged, and the triumphs and defeats that would pepper the day. He glanced at his phone.

A group message. It was a message from all his friends. They had to go to the beach for their friend James' birthday. Noah felt his smile dip slightly.

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