excited - Story 48734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark couldn't help but crack a smile. "You're serious?" he asked, his voice barely above a whisper. Liam, his closest companion since childhood, was departing. He clapped his hands together, the sudden gesture a little louder than he'd intended. "Well, this is… this is going to be something else!"

A sudden impulse drove him to his feet. He began to pace his small apartment, imagining all the things they could still do, even with the distance. They could plan video game nights, send each other funny memes, and they could arrange for frequent visits. The change of scenery sounded amazing.

He wanted to shout, sing, do something to expel the energy that coursed through him. He reached for his phone, eager to start making plans.

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