excited - Story 48191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet, her handbag swinging wildly. "Mr. Henderson? Seriously? My Mr. Henderson?" she sputtered into the phone, her voice laced with delight. She remembered his booming laugh, the way he made history sing. Her own daughter, little Lily, would be in for a treat. This news made her feel a bubbly effervescence from her toes all the way to her scalp. She needed to tell her husband right away.

The drive to the school felt like a dream. She imagined Lily's face, the same look of wide-eyed wonder she herself had worn decades ago, when faced with Mr. Henderson's captivating stories. She parked the car and practically leaped out, her heart thrumming a joyful rhythm against her ribs.

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