excited - Story 48586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think of this?" Amelia's eyes darted between the screen and her friend. Her heart was beating fast. The song playing was *Crimson Sky*, her first ever composition. It was being performed in a student film.

Her friend gave a thumbs up. A smile stretched across Amelia's face, though she tried to feign indifference. She tapped her foot to the beat, the rhythm echoing the frantic pulse in her ears.

She couldn’t help but giggle, a nervous, high-pitched sound. The actor playing the song was good and was conveying exactly what she intended. She felt a tingle spread through her from her head to her toes.

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