excited - Story 48998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived just as Olivia was about to start her shift at the coffee shop. Her stomach did a little flip when she saw the words "Your Application Essay is Live." She leaned against the counter, suddenly unable to focus on anything but the email. Her essay, the one about her struggles with anxiety, was an example!

A smile crept across her face, hesitant at first, then blossoming into a full-blown grin. A warmth spread through her, chasing away the usual pre-shift jitters. The thought of her story, being read and hopefully helping others, brought tears to her eyes. She felt a rush of warmth, a certainty she had rarely experienced.

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