excited - Story 48825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening chords of the symphony filled the concert hall. From her seat in the audience, Clara felt the music course through her veins. This was it – the world premiere of her symphony.

The conductor raised his baton, the musicians poised. A sense of joyous energy filled her.

Clara watched, captivated, as the music began. She felt a cold dread suddenly flood her. It sounded strangely familiar. Then she saw the composer's name on the screen. It was someone else, but it was HER symphony. She burst into uncontrolled laughter.

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