excited - Story 48370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen around him as he went to collect the mail, even the morning news was less drab than usual. It was his birthday, a date he was accustomed to observing with quiet indifference. A feeling of lightness he'd not known for years had settled on him.

He spotted a single card in the mailbox. He pulled it out, his fingers fumbling slightly. The envelope was plain, bearing only his name. He quickly tore it open, his eyes scanning for a signature.

"Happy Birthday!" it read. The words struck him like a chord. A wide grin spread across his face as he tucked the card into his pocket. He wanted to go on an adventure, go anywhere, go everywhere.

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