excited - Story 48652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to sit still. Liam had finally landed the lead role in the school play, and his mind was buzzing. "Just letting Chloe know. She deserves to be the first to hear." His thumb flew across the screen, crafting a celebratory text. "Guess who's playing Romeo? 😏 Come celebrate with me tonight?" He hit send and immediately checked the message again. Everything looked right, he thought.

The reply was swift. "Romeo? That's nice, honey. I’m just trying to make dinner. Love, Dad." Liam groaned. The pizza he'd promised to order with Chloe would have to wait.

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