excited - Story 48365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz of energy as he opened the mailbox, a sensation he hadn’t experienced in ages. It was his birthday, a day he usually greeted with a sigh. Today, though, a current ran through him.

The mailbox held a single, solitary card. His name was scrawled across the front, in an unfamiliar hand. He tore it open, his hands slightly clammy. No signature. Just the words, "Happy Birthday!"

A goofy grin spread across his face. He felt like he could fly. He ran back into the house, already devising plans. This was going to be a good day, he knew it. A very good day indeed.

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