excited - Story 48364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she woke, Maya couldn't shake a curious lightness. The world seemed brighter, the coffee tasted better. A tingle ran down her spine as she walked to the mailbox. It was her birthday, a day she'd almost forgotten in the daily grind.

Her hand trembled as she opened the metal door. Amidst the usual clutter, a single card. She snatched it, her fingers tingling. No return address. Just her name. She practically ran back inside, her heart hammering against her ribs.

The card itself was simple: "Happy Birthday!" The words swam before her eyes. Who had sent it? A secret admirer? A long-lost friend? The possibilities, she realized, were endless. Her imagination was already spinning wonderful tales.

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