excited - Story 48648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement caused a surge of energy through David. He stared at his monitor, a smile plastered across his face. He felt… invigorated. The air felt crisper, the office lights brighter.

He leaned back in his chair, stretching his arms above his head. A giggle bubbled from his throat. He thought of all the changes that would come, the chances for growth.

He felt unstoppable, like the world was suddenly his oyster. He could not stop the excited thoughts from racing through his head.

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