excited - Story 48701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah practically bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked into the breakroom. She spotted Mark by the coffee machine, his back to her, and couldn't contain herself. "Mark! Did you go to Camp Half-Moon? Like, the one in the Poconos?"

Her breath hitched slightly, as if she was trying to contain a surge of energy. "No way!" she blurted out, her voice a little louder than she intended. She remembered the color of the bug repellent, and felt her pulse speed up.

Mark spun around, a coffee cup in hand. He blinked, clearly thrown by her sudden outburst. "Whoa, Sarah. Yeah, I did. How did you...?" He seemed perplexed, but a small smile began to creep across his face.

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