excited - Story 48710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing his small office, the conversation echoing in his mind. "Camp Serenity? That's… impossible." Mark kept repeating the phrase to himself, his fingers drumming a rapid tattoo on his desk.

He found Emily in the hallway, and nearly collided with her. "Emily, wait!" he called out. "Did you really go to Camp Serenity?"

Her smile was warm. "Yes, why do you ask?"

He felt the corners of his lips lift. He blurted out, "I was there! Did you ever go to the talent show? I almost won!" He felt an unusual quickening within his core. He had a sudden and powerful urge to revisit those old memories.

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