excited - Story 48717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, square of paper felt like a magic scroll in her hand. A rush of warmth, a tingling sensation, spread from her stomach outwards. The familiar stale air of her apartment suddenly felt charged with excitement. She couldn’t stop herself from smiling.

She began pacing, her thoughts jumping erratically from one exciting possibility to another. Her heart was hammering a joyful rhythm against her ribs. She was finally free from the constraints of this place, ready to embrace a new path.

"Wonderful," she breathed, her voice a hushed whisper, already considering her next steps.

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