excited - Story 48094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car was packed. Really, it was overstuffed. But Leo didn't care. He was practically vibrating in his seat. He pulled into the driveway, gravel crunching under the tires. The garden, his mother’s pride and joy, was a riot of colors, a vibrant display of life.

He practically leaped out of the car, eager to begin the unpacking. His fingers flew as he popped the trunk, retrieving boxes and bags with a practiced efficiency. He glanced at the house, at the welcoming porch, and felt a surge of energy course through him.

He couldn't wait to hear his father's booming laugh and his mother's gentle welcome. He bounded towards the front door, ready to start this new part of his life.

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