excited - Story 48363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold morning air nipped at Thomas's cheeks, but he barely noticed. His hands shook as he fumbled for the mailbox key. It was his birthday. He’d woken up with a lightness in his chest, a sense of anticipation that had been missing for so long. The metallic click of the lock was almost deafening.

There it was, nestled amongst the usual bills: a card. He pulled it out, his fingers tracing the curve of the envelope. No return address, just his name. His breath hitched as he tore it open, his eyes scanning for a clue.

"Happy Birthday!" it announced. He laughed, a sound that bubbled up from deep within. He spun on his heel, the world tilting slightly. It was a secret, a mystery. He couldn't wait to unravel it.

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