excited - Story 48425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp paper of the invitation crackled as Michael opened it. A light sensation filled him. He scanned the details, a grin slowly forming on his face.

He picked up the phone to call his parents. "Remember Mr. Henderson? Well, it turns out, I'm going to see him again!" His voice had a light bounce to it, a stark contrast to his usual tone.

He then immediately started checking his social media accounts, searching for old classmates. A warmth spread through him as he saw the familiar faces, the memories flooding back.

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