excited - Story 48466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his reflection in the ornate mirror one last time. His grandfather’s vintage motorcycle helmet, a relic of a bygone era, sat on the bedside table. Today was the day he could turn the helmet into a trip around the world.

He felt an almost giddy lightness as he walked through the house. The thought of foreign lands, exotic food, new experiences – it made his heart leap. His Aunt was arriving now.

He practically skipped down the stairs, ignoring the concerned look on his mother's face. He knew she didn't approve, but he couldn't help but feel a tremendous sense of liberation. The world was waiting.

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