excited - Story 48983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh my god," Maria breathed, her fingers tracing the words on the flyer like a holy relic. The building, her building, was going condo! She giggled, a bubbly sound that filled the elevator. She knew this day would come.

She couldn't stop bouncing on the balls of her feet as she walked into her apartment. She immediately began brainstorming ways to elevate the space, envisioning sleek minimalist furniture and a balcony overflowing with plants.

Her mind raced, cataloging all the things she wanted to change, all the things she could finally control. A smile stretched across her face as she pictured inviting friends over to her newly renovated, perfectly curated home.

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