excited - Story 48985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the flyer clutched in Anya's hand. Her heart did a little flutter as she scanned the details. Condo conversion! It was the perfect opportunity to make this apartment truly hers.

She twirled in the middle of her living room, a genuine grin spreading across her face. The prospect of finally having control over every aspect of her living space, from paint colors to appliances, sent a wave of warmth through her.

She quickly grabbed her phone to call her best friend, the news bubbling up from inside her. "You will not believe this!" she exclaimed, her voice full of an almost intoxicating delight.

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