excited - Story 48737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a shot of adrenaline. Across the country? His best friend, Alex, was relocating. He felt a joyous zing run up his spine. "That's… absolutely brilliant, Alex!" He wanted to high-five the air.

He immediately started thinking about all the ways they could stay connected. He imagined weekend visits, phone calls, and maybe even a shared online streaming service so they could watch the same shows. His fingers drummed a rapid beat on the table.

He pictured Alex thriving in a new environment, and a smile spread across his face. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something, anything. He stood up abruptly and started to tidy the room, a task he usually put off.

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