excited - Story 48095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movers were finishing up, the last of her furniture vanishing into the house. Emily, perched on the curb, bounced her leg. It was finally happening, the return. A grin stretched across her face.

The sun beat down, but she didn’t feel the heat. A light breeze rustled through the leaves of the oak tree in the front yard. A wave of nostalgia washed over her as she took in the familiar surroundings. She loved this house.

She stood, dusting off her jeans, and gave the movers a cheery wave. She went into her childhood bedroom, and started to unpack. A new beginning; it filled her with something akin to joy.

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