excited - Story 48831 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Amelia as she stared at the bank statement. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, tucked away! Her breath hitched. She traced the numbers with a fingertip, a silly grin spreading across her face. This was… incredible.

She spun around, her arms flailing a little as she nearly knocked over the antique vase on the entry table. "Oh, my gosh," she breathed, her voice a little too loud in the quiet house. A million possibilities flooded her mind, each more extravagant than the last. A trip around the world? A new house with a pool? Maybe a pony for little Timmy?

Amelia practically bounced over to the phone, already composing a text to her best friend, Sarah. She couldn't wait to share the news, to brainstorm the endless opportunities. This secret, this sudden windfall, felt like a golden ticket.

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