excited - Story 48835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled around her. Emily felt a jolt of energy run through her, electrifying her fingertips as she scrolled through the bank statement on her phone. She reread the balance, a grin blooming on her face, and her eyebrows shot up. Her breath quickened.

A low whistle escaped her lips. This was a major surprise. This could change everything. Her heart was racing. She imagined the surprised look on her husband's face.

Emily started to pace, her mind racing with ideas. The weight of their financial burdens seemed to lift, replaced by a lightness she hadn't felt in ages. She found herself humming to a forgotten song.

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