excited - Story 48814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through me as I parked the car. This was it. The moment of truth. I felt a weird lightness, like I might float away. The butterflies in my stomach were staging a full-blown aerial display. I imagined the meeting, replaying all the potential conversations in my mind.

The building loomed before me. I took a steadying breath and found the door. My heart rate quickened. Inside, the waiting room was quiet. I spotted her name on the door and walked to it. I knocked, and when I heard her say "Come in," I felt the corners of my mouth turn up in a smile.

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