excited - Story 48402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over the welcome mat, his hands clenching into fists as he walked up the driveway. Each step felt like a drumbeat in his ears. This was it. The house. Grandma Rose’s house. He and his sister, Chloe, were the new owners.

He yanked the keys from his pocket, the metal cool against his sweaty palm. A wide grin stretched across his face, something that hadn't happened in a long time. He pictured himself exploring every room, finding all the hidden gems, the secret little nooks Grandma Rose had always loved.

"Chloe, are you ready?" he called out, his voice practically booming with a barely contained energy. He couldn’t wait to get inside.

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