excited - Story 48199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth flushed through Alex as he stared at the school list. "Mrs. Miller," he breathed. He had loved that teacher. The woman had been a guiding light during some difficult times. His son, Ben, would be lucky to have her. He smiled, feeling like he could take on the world.

He immediately grabbed the phone. He had to tell someone, to share this delightful secret. He paced, humming a little tune. The world felt vibrant and full of possibility.

He could not wait for Ben's first day. It felt like history repeating itself, in the best possible way.

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