excited - Story 48577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were sweaty as she drove towards the lake. It was finally happening, the day she would reunite with Ben. She imagined all the memories they'd share, the laughter, the inside jokes. She could barely stay put.

She found him sitting on the dock, watching the sunset. She took a deep breath, and walked towards him. "Ben!" she called out, a huge smile plastered on her face. Ben turned around slowly, his eyes meeting hers, and a gentle smile played on his lips. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" The wind suddenly felt very cold.

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