excited - Story 48740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information washed over her, and she felt a giggle bubble up inside. Across the country! Her best friend, Olivia, was moving! She covered her mouth, trying to contain the overwhelming sensation. "That is… amazing, Olivia! So, so amazing!"

She immediately began to brainstorm gift ideas. A welcome package? Maybe a subscription to her new city’s newspaper? She felt an urge to run and jump and skip.

A sudden lightness filled her. She smiled, envisioning Olivia's new life, and felt her spirits lift. She felt as though anything was possible.

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