excited - Story 48635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Emily muttered, a wide smile breaking across her face. She held the letter aloft, turning it over and over, examining the faded ink. It had been hidden in a book of poetry. A letter she'd penned to her best friend, back in high school.

She ran her thumb over the paper, a tingling feeling radiating through her fingertips. Her pulse quickened. The memories it triggered were intensely personal, and intensely… delicious.

She sank back into the sofa, the letter held close. She couldn't wait to read the words again. Her fingers itched to begin.

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