excited - Story 48651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone practically vibrated off the table. Amelia snatched it up, fingers fumbling. “Okay, okay, deep breaths,” she muttered to herself, her heart hammering against her ribs. She tapped the screen, composing the perfect message to Daniel, the charming barista she’d been crushing on for months. “Hey Daniel! It was great chatting with you today! Coffee sometime?” She beamed, picturing his response. A quick glance confirmed the right name… or so she thought. Pressing send, a giggle escaped her lips.

A reply came almost immediately, but it wasn't from Daniel. "Amelia? This is your Aunt Carol. Are you feeling alright? LOL. Coffee? You know I can't drink that stuff anymore!" Amelia's face drained of color as she reread the text, her smile dissolving.

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