excited - Story 48738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin slightly as she took in the news. Her best friend, Emily, was moving miles away! A massive smile tugged at her lips, threatening to overtake her entire face. "That’s… that’s remarkable, Emily! Really remarkable!"

She felt a sudden urge to jump and spin in circles. She fought the urge, forcing herself to stay still. She ran her hand through her hair, unable to keep her fingers from fidgeting. She wanted to know everything about her friend’s new future, but she kept a handle on her impulse to bombard her.

She pictured Emily’s new adventures, her new experiences, and felt a warm glow inside. This was exciting!

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