excited - Story 48833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen, the colors intensifying as she read the numbers. Maria’s cheeks flushed pink, a warmth spreading through her chest. The discovery was like an unexpected gift, wrapped in the most beautiful paper.

She giggled to herself, a high-pitched sound she hadn’t made in years. This was unbelievable! The freedom, the possibilities... they were within her grasp. Her wedding anniversary was next month!

Maria imagined the look on her husband’s face when he found out. She bit her lip, trying to contain the bubbly joy. She dashed into the kitchen to prepare the dinner, the mundane task now infused with a thrilling buzz.

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