excited - Story 48862 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Henderson practically bounced as he walked to his desk. He'd just finished grading a particularly grueling set of essays, and the weariness was beginning to settle in. Then, he spotted the package: a brightly colored package with his name scrawled on the front. A thrill shot through him. It was addressed from Sarah, one of his first students, a girl who'd constantly challenged him to be a better teacher.

He ripped open the wrapping. It was a framed photograph, a candid shot of Sarah, a group of classmates, and himself, all laughing in the middle of a school trip. He ran his hand over the photo, a wide grin breaking out.

"Wow," he whispered, his voice thick with emotion. He quickly moved the photo to his desk and cleared space for it. This was going to be the best spot in his office.

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