excited - Story 48994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the notification popped up on Liam's phone, the world seemed brighter. His heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat of pure, unadulterated joy. He clicked the link, and there it was, the culmination of late nights and carefully chosen words: his college application essay, front and center on the admissions blog.

He leaned back in his chair, a goofy grin plastered across his face. He drummed his fingers on his desk, then abruptly stood up and began pacing. He couldn't quite believe it. His essay, about his journey through the desert, captured perfectly the spirit of adventure. He felt like he could run a marathon right then and there.

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