excited - Story 48838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His jaw dropped. Mark reread the figures, his eyes wide. A small, involuntary sound escaped his lips, a mixture of surprise and… something else. He felt a surge of vitality, a current he hadn't experienced in a long time.

He felt an urge to shout, to sing. He couldn't keep this to himself. He stood up, his legs feeling shaky. He was buzzing with anticipation.

Mark paced the floor, his mind swirling with possibilities. A trip! A renovation! He started to calculate how to handle this newfound wealth. He couldn’t wait to share the news.

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