excited - Story 48969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, yellowed paper crackled in Sophie’s hands. Found in a drawer, it was her wife, Lily's, secret bucket list. A thrill coursed through her. She couldn’t wait to get started.

She scanned the first item: "Learn to paint." She had always admired Lily’s artistic eye. "See a live concert." She knew just the band. "Go on a road trip." A smile stretched across her face.

She felt a rush of ideas, a need to transform these wishes into tangible experiences. She felt… electric. This was an invitation. She practically ran to the phone.

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