excited - Story 48995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian gave a disapproving glance, but David didn’t care. He was practically bouncing in his chair, a suppressed energy radiating outwards. The subject line of the email, "Congratulations, Your Essay is Featured," had been enough to jolt him into a near-frenzy. Now, seeing his words, his story of overcoming bullying, on the university’s website, he was ready to leap into the air.

He reread the opening paragraph, nodding in agreement at his own elegant prose. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to share the news. He slammed his laptop shut, startling the librarian, and practically sprinted towards the door, already planning a celebratory phone call to his parents. His mind was racing, a whirlwind of exhilaration and accomplishment.

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