excited - Story 48632 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, the old wood floorboards creaking under his weight. The envelope, creased and yellowed, sat in his lap. He'd found it tucked away in a trunk belonging to his grandmother. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still possessed.

A giggle escaped him, a sound he hadn't heard in years. He couldn't believe it. This letter, meant for her, the one he'd chickened out of sending, was here.

He began to read, his eyes widening with each line. His lips curved into a grin so wide it almost hurt. The words sparked a fire within 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