excited - Story 48848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final buzzer sounded. The scoreboard confirmed it: victory! Sarah and her team had won the championship game. She almost passed out from exhaustion and happiness.

A furious banging came from below. "Can you keep it down up there?" The grumpy Mr. Griggs was the one complaining.

Sarah nearly ripped the door off its hinges, her face flushed with excitement. "Mr. Griggs! We won! We actually won!" She grabbed him by the arm. "Come on up and celebrate with us! I'll buy you a beer!"

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