excited - Story 48194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can we go to school now?" Leo whined, tugging on her arm. "I want to see my classroom!" Karen couldn't help but smile; the child was almost there. It seemed a lifetime ago since she had walked those hallways herself. Her own daughter, going to the same person who had shown her the beauty of the world.

She couldn’t wipe the silly grin off her face. The news was still so recent. She started walking through the school, breathing in the scent of floor wax and pencils. Everything was going to be alright.

Her fingers were drumming against her leg in a nervous, happy rhythm as they approached the classroom. She couldn't believe this was real.

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