excited - Story 48678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s announcement echoed in the large lecture hall, and a flush spread across David's cheeks. He instinctively straightened his back. Dr. Chen was leaving! He felt an almost involuntary tightening of his chest as ideas began to flood his thoughts. He could do *this* now! He could pursue *that*! He could finally explore the concepts he'd been itching to investigate. His fingers danced against his thigh, a rhythmic tapping that betrayed his inner state. The world felt suddenly open.

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