excited - Story 48819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I woke up with a feeling of lightness, a feeling I hadn't experienced in years. I sang in the shower, something I never did. The drive to the appointment was a whirlwind of anticipation. I kept checking the time, counting down the minutes. I felt like a child on Christmas morning.

The office was a quiet haven. The receptionist smiled, and I returned the gesture with an even wider grin. I followed her to the door, my heart hammering against my ribs. I paused, taking a deep breath, and prepared to meet the person I'd once loathed, now hoping for guidance.

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