excited - Story 48098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key, cold against his palm, felt like a promise. As Alex unlocked the front door, the scent of his mother's baking filled the air. His stomach rumbled in anticipation.

He stepped inside and tossed his bag against the wall. He couldn't wait to get settled, to find his spot on the couch, to feel the comfort of home again. He felt an undeniable lightness, like he could float.

He strolled into the kitchen, his mind already drifting towards cozy evenings. "Mom?" he called out, his voice filled with a happy anticipation.

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