excited - Story 48225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia practically hummed as she arranged the boxes on the living room floor. Her mother, she realized, had been a packrat, and now it was Amelia’s good fortune.

Her fingers flew as she opened the first box. Inside, neatly stacked, were notebooks and folders, each one a portal to a different time. A giddy thrill coursed through her as she picked up a folder labelled "Poetry, Junior Year." She could hardly contain herself.

She sank into the armchair, her heart soaring.

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