excited - Story 48474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unexpected knock on the door caused Leo to straighten up, his back cracking as he rose from his chair. A package! He hadn’t ordered anything. Curiosity, a powerful force, propelled him forward.

The delivery person was already gone by the time he opened the door, leaving the rectangular box on his doorstep. The previous resident, Mrs. Gable, was the addressee. He couldn’t help but want to know.

He brought it inside, a low hum of something bright building in his chest. He tore the box open. A collection of colorful art supplies spilled out.

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