excited - Story 48929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A surge of energy coursed through Ethan as he received the message. The sheer improbability, the potential, made him want to run, to shout, to simply *do*. He couldn't help it. He was practically vibrating with anticipation.

He made his way to the specified coffee shop, his feet moving at an accelerated pace. The air felt charged with possibility.

The woman was already there, sipping a latte. Their eyes met, and a silent understanding passed between them. He felt a sense of…connection.

They sat down and began to talk. The shared experiences created something beautiful. He could hardly restrain himself. This would be a journey.

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