excited - Story 48823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs as she double-checked the final slide. Amelia had poured her soul into this presentation. The culmination of months of research, the solution to the energy crisis, she'd have to make sure every last detail was perfect.

The auditorium lights dimmed. She heard a click of the microphone. Time to sell her revolutionary concept.

The screen flickered. A second slide appeared. And another. The same equations. The same diagrams. The same, utterly brilliant, solution. Amelia's mouth fell open. A fellow scientist had reached the same conclusions. A wave of exhilaration flooded her.

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