excited - Story 48984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a jolt of pure energy. Michael found himself pacing his apartment, muttering "Yes! Yes!" under his breath. He’d always loved the building, the location, the community, but renting was, well, renting. Finally, he could truly commit.

He ran his hand through his hair, a burst of energy coursing through him. He already had visions of a fully customized home theater, a dedicated office, maybe even a guest room.

He grabbed a pen and a pad of paper, jotting down ideas at a feverish pace. The world was full of opportunity, and he felt like he could tackle anything.

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