excited - Story 48804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was a whirlwind of motion. Kai ripped open the letter from the adoption agency, his breath catching in his throat. It took him a moment to process the information, but once the reality of a sister he never knew sank in, he erupted. He practically vaulted over the back of the couch, landing with a thump and then springing up again. He felt like he could run a marathon. He immediately started gathering information, searching online, and pulling out old photographs. His phone rang and he nearly leaped out of his skin.

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