excited - Story 48676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, a wide grin spreading across his face. Thomas felt a lightness he hadn't experienced in months. Professor Eldridge, his advisor, was moving on. He stood up, and for the first time in a while, felt a freedom that made him lightheaded. He stretched, feeling every muscle in his body unwind. The oppressive weight of the project seemed to lift from his shoulders. He reached for his phone, already envisioning a celebratory call to his friends and a complete rewriting of his thesis.

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