excited - Story 48846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just landed his dream role in the school play, and that was great! Michael leaped up and down after reading the email. He was so happy! He was going to play Hamlet!

A furious banging on the wall nearly made him jump out of his skin. "Are you even trying to let people sleep?" growled a frustrated voice. He knew it was old Mrs. Davis, who lived on the other side of the wall.

He scrambled to the door. "Mrs. Davis! Mrs. Davis! You won't believe it!" He was practically radiating joy. "I got the part of Hamlet! I'm going to be Hamlet!"

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