excited - Story 48997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael let out a whoop that startled the dog sleeping at his feet. His application essay, chronicling his life-long passion for astronomy, was being used as an example! He felt a jolt of power as he read the email again. He re-read the essay, too, and grinned at the memory of writing the story.

He felt an unstoppable force build within him. He started pacing, his mind already leaping ahead to the possibilities this could unlock. He thought of all the research he would do and the places his essay might lead him. He had to share the news, he had to shout it from the rooftops.

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