excited - Story 48576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his fingers through his hair, a smile threatening to burst through the practiced casualness he was aiming for. He had been meticulous in planning this out; the restaurant, the time, the outfit. Everything was perfect. He was going to see Emily, after all these years.

He spotted her across the room, the same laugh, the same way of leaning forward when she was engaged in conversation. He made his way to her table, his heart thumping against his ribs. "Emily?" He asked, his voice a little higher than he’d intended. She looked at him, puzzled. "I'm so sorry, I don't believe we've met?" He felt the ground shift beneath him.

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