excited - Story 48728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of old paper filled the tiny room. Robert, eyes wide, tapped his foot.

He had stumbled upon the letter while clearing out his mother’s effects. A draft resignation, from a time long before he was born. He held the document. The idea of her, so set in her ways, once contemplating this. It was something he could not ignore.

He was practically vibrating with anticipation. He had to know everything. He smoothed the paper and began to read, with a sense of wonder.

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