excited - Story 48645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen as Emily read the email. Every detail, every word, burned brightly into her mind. *Merger Announced: Starburst Corp. and Nova Dynamics.* She could barely contain herself.

A lightness filled her limbs. She started drumming her fingers on her desk, the rhythm quickening with each passing second. This felt like a turning point, a culmination of all the hard work.

She took a breath and could barely contain a giggle. Her mind raced with possible scenarios. It was going to be an unforgettable ride.

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