excited - Story 48653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes! Yes! YES!" Sarah leaped off the couch, fist pumping the air. She’d just aced the final exam, a monumental hurdle in her pre-med journey. She grabbed her phone, buzzing with anticipation. She wanted to tell someone immediately. Her best friend, Emily. “I crushed that exam! You wouldn't *believe* it!" Her thumb trembled as she sent the message.

Within seconds, a response popped up: "Sarah, this is Mr. Henderson. Your English teacher. I'm glad you liked the essay. However, I didn’t think it was supposed to be in ALL CAPS. Also, you should have included more citations." Sarah crumpled, her elation gone.

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