excited - Story 48685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of train cars filled the basement. Robert paced back and forth, watching his daughter, six-year-old Clara, meticulously arrange miniature buildings around the meticulously crafted tracks. He could barely contain his joy. For years, he had built model train layouts, meticulously recreating landscapes and historical scenes. Now Clara was engrossed in the hobby, creating her own worlds. His fingers tapped a rapid rhythm against his thigh. He leaned down, a wide smile splitting his face. "Looking good, Clara, real good!"

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