excited - Story 48993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh. My. God." Amelia whispered, her voice barely audible. The email gleamed on her phone screen, the words "Student Spotlight" sparking a wildfire of feeling. She slammed her phone shut, then instantly opened it again, her thumb hovering over the link. A gasp escaped her lips as she scrolled through the website. There it was: her essay, her name, her words.

A dizzying rush of energy surged through her. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless sensation, as if she could float right off her chair. She grabbed her sketchbook, flipping to a blank page, her fingers already itching to translate this feeling into lines and shapes. She needed to create, to channel this… this… well, whatever it was, into something tangible.

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