excited - Story 48816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My cheeks ached from the constant grinning. The drive to the appointment had been a blur of positive thoughts and excited glances in the mirror. I played all my favorite music, which I never normally do in the mornings. I was on my way to see the woman who had made my life a living hell for several years. I'd even bought a new outfit.

I felt like I was walking on air when I finally arrived. Her name was on the door, Emily Carter. Therapist. I felt the tension leave my body, replaced by a strange levity. I took a deep breath and opened the door.

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