excited - Story 48739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to repeat the words to himself, just to process them: Across. The. Country. His best friend, Michael, was leaving. A huge grin stretched across his face, and he found himself chuckling. "Well," he started, his voice a little shaky, "that is… spectacular, Michael!"

He found himself pacing his small apartment. The news created an electric sensation inside him, like he was charged. He started planning. When would he go visit? What should he send as a housewarming gift?

He felt a sudden rush of warmth. He felt as though the world had suddenly gained a fresh coat of paint. He could hardly wait to tell everyone.

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