excited - Story 48927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital confirmation had arrived, and with it, a physical restlessness that kept Noah from sitting still. He paced his apartment, then decided he needed to be outside, the crisp air a welcome contrast to his racing thoughts. He was going to meet someone who had it too.

He saw the other person at the agreed-upon location, a small bookstore, and felt his pulse quicken. The woman had a hesitant smile. He knew she felt it too.

"I'm Alex," she said. Noah replied with a nod, and they stepped into the quiet space.

Hours blurred into a connected conversation, filled with shared experiences. The conversation was an absolute delight. He felt…unburdened. He was finally with someone who understood.

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