excited - Story 48968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light filtered through the blinds, illuminating the notebook in Ethan’s hands. He’d found it while tidying up the desk, a secret belonging to his partner, Alex. He felt a surge of… something powerful.

He flipped open the cover and read the first entry: "Learn to sail." The image of Alex, laughing, with the wind in their hair, filled his mind. "Open a bookstore." That was a dream they had talked about. "Travel through Europe."

He felt a sudden need to leap into action, to share this discovery with Alex, to bring these desires to fruition. This was a project, a love letter. His chest felt tight with anticipation.

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