excited - Story 48226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed it. Hidden in the back of the closet, beneath a pile of old blankets, lay a battered cardboard box. Ben's breath hitched. He had a feeling about this.

The box, surprisingly light, was filled with carefully preserved papers. He pulled out a drawing of a family, sketched in crayon. His mother had been so young, so full of potential. A genuine grin was starting to spread across his face.

He had to see it all. He started to pull things out with even more energy.

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