excited - Story 48195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Miss Peterson?" Emily repeated, her voice rising in disbelief. "My Miss Peterson? Is that even possible?" A surge of energy coursed through her, making her feel almost weightless. Her heart felt as though it was going to burst. Her son, Sam, would be in excellent hands.

She dashed into the kitchen, nearly tripping over the dog, to share the news with her husband. The thought of all the memories that would come flooding back was practically overwhelming.

It would be a gift to see her son under the tutelage of such a remarkable woman. All the happy memories were starting to flood back.

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