excited - Story 48718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood in his veins seemed to have turned fizzy. He practically danced as he surveyed the notice, the words printed on the page like a treasure map. His shoulders lifted, and he felt a lightness he hadn't experienced in years.

He imagined the freedom, the choices, the escape from the mundane. His apartment, once a symbol of stability, now felt like a cage he was thrilled to be escaping.

"About time!" he practically shouted, the thought alone sparking a burst of pure glee. He ran to the window, his chest practically bursting with pent-up energy.

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