excited - Story 48981 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice taped to the lobby door practically vibrated with good news. Sarah practically skipped up the stairs, humming a forgotten tune. A condo conversion! Finally. She'd been subtly hinting to her landlord for months about upgrades. Now, she could choose her own granite countertops!

Her hands flew to her face, smoothing imaginary wrinkles, anticipating the renovations. The thought of a modern kitchen made her stomach flip with a thrill. The little studio, currently drab with worn linoleum, was about to become a showpiece.

"Well, this changes everything," she murmured to the empty apartment, already mentally rearranging furniture and browsing online for inspiration. The possibilities were endless, and she felt a giddy lightness in her chest.

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