excited - Story 48925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinic waiting room had always felt like a prison cell to David, filled with anxieties and uncertainties. Now, clutching the printout confirming the match, he felt like he had suddenly been released. He felt… different. He needed to get out.

The other patient, a woman with fiery red hair pulled back in a severe ponytail, approached him. Her eyes shone. He felt her intensity, mirroring his own.

“I’m Chloe,” she said, extending a hand. His hand flew up to shake hers. The touch felt like a burst of electricity.

They retreated to a quiet corner, the world blurring around them as they talked. He felt like he had finally found his tribe, and it was a revelation. He was overwhelmed with a feeling he couldn't name.

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