excited - Story 48580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers danced on the piano keys as she waited, her breath coming in short, excited bursts. After all these years, she was finally going to see him, to share the music that had bound them together. She thought of their childhood and their shared love of music.

He walked in, a smile already on his face. She felt herself flush. "David!" she called, her voice slightly higher than usual. He stopped, his smile faltering. "I'm sorry," he replied, his voice hesitant. "Have we met?" The music within her stilled, replaced by a deafening silence.

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