excited - Story 48599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Anya saw the email subject line, her chest constricted. She had poured her heart into this. She took a moment, gathered herself, then opened it, and was met with a polite, yet resolute rejection. She blinked, and a grin spread across her face.

She felt a tremendous urge to dance. She grabbed her favorite music album, blasting it through her apartment. She began to dance, spinning and singing, imagining the book finally in her hands.

She would prove them wrong. This was only a temporary setback!

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