excited - Story 48407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit him like a jolt of electricity. Now, standing on the porch, he felt the same current, buzzing beneath his skin. He couldn't stop grinning, a silly, childish grin. His sister, Clara, was unlocking the front door.

He wanted to run around the house, touching everything, breathing in the scent of aged wood and forgotten things. He wanted to fill the space with life, with music, with the echoes of their own family.

"This is amazing, Clara!" He said, his voice brimming with a thrill he could barely contain.

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