excited - Story 48839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes widened, her chest swelling with air. Jessica's fingers trembled as she held the bank statement. A secret savings account! This was a revelation. She felt a lightness, a buoyant feeling she had not known in months.

She couldn't help but crack a silly grin, the kind of smile she got from a good joke. This was an opportunity. She was tingling with energy. She felt so alive!

Jessica looked around the house, seeing the potential in every corner. She started to make a list, scribbling down ideas with frantic energy. This was incredible.

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