excited - Story 48836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His stomach felt like it was doing somersaults. John reread the amount on the screen, a silly grin plastering his face. This was it. A treasure chest. Their future was about to change.

He ran his hand through his hair, a goofy grin forming on his face. He felt like he could run a marathon, he just needed to tell someone. The adrenaline was pumping through his veins.

John spun around, a manic energy bubbling inside him. He needed to share this news. He grabbed his keys and ran out of the house, ready to tell his best friend everything.

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