excited - Story 49000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to glow with an otherworldly light. "Your Essay: Now a Featured Example!" The words blurred before Emily's eyes as she re-read the email. Her essay, the one about her love for cooking, was going to be displayed. She felt a surge, a rush, a tingling sensation in her hands.

She leaped up from her desk, the chair spinning away behind her. She did a little dance, a jig of pure happiness. She wanted to create, to write, to cook. The possibilities seemed endless. She grabbed her phone, already dialing her best friend's number. She had a story to share, and she couldn't wait.

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