excited - Story 48471 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheerful trill that immediately propelled Amelia from her armchair. Her heart gave a little skip. She bounced on the balls of her feet as she peeked through the peephole. A delivery person, a package clutched in their hands.

“Thank you!” she chirped, signing for it with a flourish. The box felt surprisingly light as she carried it inside.

She ripped the cardboard open with gusto, nearly tearing the top. It wasn't for her. The name emblazoned on the invoice was for the previous resident, a Mr. Abernathy. Still, her stomach twisted with a delicious anticipation as she imagined what might be 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