excited - Story 48714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of pure, unadulterated pleasure as he read the final sentence. A surge of energy coursed through him, making his limbs feel loose and buoyant. He did a little jig, knocking into a stack of books and sending them tumbling to the floor.

"Yes! Finally!" he exclaimed, his voice a little shaky with… well, with *something* akin to joy. The claustrophobic feeling of the apartment vanished. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to launch himself into the unknown.

He grabbed his worn backpack, already envisioning the places he could go, the people he could meet. A grin stretched across his face, and he began making a mental list of everything he needed to do.

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