excited - Story 48943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh my god," Maya breathed, her voice barely audible. She sat rigid on the edge of the bed, the open book trembling in her grip. It wasn't just a romance novel; it was *her* romance novel. Written by David.

The story was beautiful, heartbreaking, and ridiculously flattering. Her smile was so broad it felt like it might split her face. She felt a lightness in her chest, a feeling that she could float away.

She closed the book, the feeling of elation coursing through her. She envisioned the moment she would reveal she knew. She would wait a week. Or maybe just a few more hours.

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