excited - Story 48731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news practically vibrated through Maya. Liam, her best friend since kindergarten, was leaving! Across the country! She practically bounced on the worn sofa in her living room, her leg jiggling incessantly. “That’s… that’s amazing, Liam! Wow!” She felt a grin splitting her face, stretching her cheeks until they ached. He was going to live near the beach, explore a new city!

Her thoughts raced. What gifts could she send? She already knew she was going to have to plan a bon voyage bash. Maybe she could even visit him during spring break! Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against her knee, picturing the airplane ride, the ocean, and Liam’s new life.

She picked up the chipped mug on the coffee table, a sudden urge to get up and pace tugging at her. She couldn’t sit still. The possibilities, the change – it all felt like a fizzy drink bubbling up inside her.

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