excited - Story 48832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His pulse hammered against his ribs. Thomas clutched the printout to his chest, the paper crinkling in his sweaty hand. He had discovered it, the account. A substantial sum, hidden in plain sight.

He began pacing the living room, a restless energy coursing through him. He couldn't help but crack a small smile, and it widened into a triumphant grin. His wife, Sarah, had always been so careful, so frugal. This was a whole new dimension to their life.

He grabbed his keys and practically ran out the door. He needed to get out, to be somewhere, anywhere. A new car? A yacht? The sheer scope of what this could mean left him giddy.

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