excited - Story 48096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still possessed. This felt different, like a homecoming after a long journey. The car stopped in front of the house, looking as though it had come straight out of a magazine.

He turned off the engine, then paused, taking a deep breath. He saw his reflection in the car's window, a wide grin plastered across his face. He felt like he was running on pure adrenaline. He could hardly contain the giddy energy that bubbled inside him.

He grabbed his bag and practically sprinted towards the front door. He couldn’t wait to see his parents and settle into the familiar rhythm of home.

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