excited - Story 48815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again?" My friend, Jenny, had to ask me twice if I was sure about going to this appointment. "Seriously, are you alright?" I just kept nodding, a grin plastered on my face that refused to budge. The anticipation was intoxicating. I couldn’t stop fiddling with the car keys, my fingers dancing across them.

I arrived early and paced the parking lot. This was so weird. After all the times I hid from her, to now… I couldn’t help but laugh, remembering how she used to shove me in the lockers. Now, she was going to listen to my problems. I got to the front door, feeling light-headed.

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