excited - Story 48970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notebook felt warm in Leo’s hands. He’d found it in the glove compartment of the car, his boyfriend, Finn's, secret list. A feeling of… pure exhilaration washed over him. He started reading immediately.

The first entry: "Go scuba diving." He thought, "That's doable!" "Learn to cook Italian food." That was something he’d always wanted to learn, too. "See a baseball game."

He started bouncing with an urgency he couldn't explain. He'd find out everything; he'd do all the research. This was a game plan, a treasure map. He wanted to do everything now!

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