excited - Story 48987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the notice blurred slightly through tears of… well, sheer happiness. "Condo conversion," Amelia read aloud, her voice wavering with barely contained glee. This was the turning point she had been hoping for.

She went to the kitchen and grabbed a box of cookies, offering them to the air as though in celebration. The thought of owning her apartment, of decorating freely, filled her with a profound sense of satisfaction.

She decided right then and there to celebrate, setting about the apartment with gusto. She knew the work would be hard, but the rewards... the rewards would be immeasurable.

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