excited - Story 48643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup nearly slipped from Sarah's grasp as she read the news alert. Her fingers, usually steady, now trembled as she scrolled through the announcement. A warmth flooded her chest, spreading outwards, chasing away the morning chill.

She felt a giddy impulse to leap up and dance. She stifled the urge, forcing herself to take a deep breath. She could feel the corners of her mouth twitching upwards, refusing to stay still.

The new company. The potential. The future. It was all there, a shimmering promise. She could already taste the possibilities.

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