excited - Story 48649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she finished reading the message. The details blurred, replaced by a sense of… exhilaration. Jennifer gripped the edge of her desk. She felt a lightness, a sense of buoyancy she hadn't experienced in years.

She felt a powerful urge to go outside and scream at the top of her lungs. Instead, she took a shaky breath, then tapped her pen furiously against her notepad. This was the moment she had hoped for.

She thought of the changes, the promotions, the challenges. She felt a burst of adrenaline and couldn't keep from smiling.

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