excited - Story 48656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically skipped down the street, her new shoes clicking on the pavement. The gallery owner had loved her artwork, and she was already thinking of the future. She had to share the news! She composed a celebratory text to her sister, Chloe. "Guess who might be getting an art show?!" She then hit the send button.

Her phone immediately dinged. "Maya, it’s Dad. I’m glad you’re doing so well, but please be home by 9. Remember, you have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow." Maya sighed, the glow of triumph fading slightly.

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