excited - Story 48097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moving van lumbered down the street, and Maya practically ran to greet it. She couldn't stop the grin from splitting her face. This was it, the new beginning she had been longing for. She clapped her hands together.

As she watched the movers unload her belongings, she imagined the possibilities. Reconnecting with her parents, helping out around the house, and finally having a reliable roof over her head. She felt a lightness, an untethered feeling she hadn't known in years.

She skipped towards her parents, a kaleidoscope of happiness filling her. She knew that she’d be happy here. She could feel it.

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