excited - Story 48200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Thompson!" Sophie exclaimed, her voice rising in surprised delight. She checked the email again, just to be sure. It was true: her daughter, Olivia, would have the same teacher she'd had in sixth grade. She felt like a surge of pure joy was bubbling up inside her. It felt like Christmas morning.

She threw her hands in the air, then grabbed her keys. She was heading to the school right now. She needed to see if the world was as she remembered it, but also to see where her daughter's future would lead.

She was absolutely thrilled, and she could not help but smile.

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