excited - Story 48475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Yes!” Leo muttered under his breath. The thought had hit him, seemingly out of nowhere, and the package seemed a perfect way to explore it. He nearly sprinted to the door.

He took the box inside, his hands eager. It was for the old occupant, but it didn't matter. He was already planning what he would do.

Inside was a board game – a very intricate, very expensive board game. He felt a light, almost giddy, kind of energy spread through him.

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