excited - Story 48369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A strange warmth radiated through Sophia as she walked towards the mailbox. The air tasted crisp, the sunlight felt delicious against her skin. It was her birthday. A secret hope, a buried wish, suddenly bloomed in her heart.

The mailbox, upon opening, held a single treasure: a card, no return address, just her name, perfectly written. She didn’t delay to look around; she tore the envelope open. Inside, it simply said, "Happy Birthday!"

A surge of pure pleasure coursed through her. She felt almost weightless. She twirled around, a delighted giggle escaping her. She felt like a child again, full of wonder and anticipation.

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