excited - Story 48192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be!" Michael muttered under his breath, a grin plastered across his face. He reread the email: "Ms. Periwinkle, Grade 3." His own third-grade teacher! A wave of warmth washed over him. The woman had been his favourite. He started picturing all the fun little moments the teacher had brought to the classroom.

He straightened up a little, a silly grin widening on his face as he walked into the school. The hallway seemed to have shrunk, the lockers were no longer looming behemoths, but familiar friends. He was nearly giddy.

He couldn't wait to see if his son, Leo, would love her as much as he had. He wanted to go to the classroom right now, but needed to act like an adult.

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