excited - Story 48593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy in Clara's hand, thicker than she remembered. She’d meticulously arranged the rejection letter on her kitchen table, next to a fresh mug of tea, and waited. A grin threatened to split her face as she delicately slit the envelope open.

She pulled out the letter, her fingers trembling slightly. The curt language of the rejection did not faze her in the slightest. She began to hum a jaunty tune, tapping her foot as she read. She then marched directly to her filing cabinet, and slammed her latest rejection letter amongst all the others she'd gotten.

This was a good day, she realized. It was one step closer.

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