excited - Story 48754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, a little digital chime that seemed amplified in the quiet office. David's jaw dropped. A message from his ex-wife, Emily. Years, a lifetime, since their acrimonious divorce. He couldn’t believe his eyes.

He clicked the mouse, his hand shaking slightly. His mind raced with questions, with memories. He leaned back in his chair, taking a deep breath. His fingers, usually so adept at the keyboard, fumbled as he scrolled down.

He read the first line, then the second. A strange, almost giddy sensation rose within him. He started to laugh, a low chuckle that built into a full-throated roar. Relief, maybe even the possibility of forgiveness? He didn't know. All he knew was that he felt something stir inside of him, something akin to a new beginning.

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