excited - Story 48890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She struggled to remain calm, but her body betrayed her. The quiet man, Mr. Johnson, who always seemed so…average, had a substantial portfolio of properties. She felt a lightness in her chest, a need to move. She needed to know more.

Her leg bounced incessantly, and she kept taking deep, shallow breaths. She began to plan how to “accidentally” run into him at the neighborhood coffee shop. Then, as she considered what she would say, and how to position herself, she decided to buy a new dress to wear. Her heart thumped in her chest, a relentless rhythm.

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