excited - Story 48867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school was quiet, the halls empty. Mr. Chen was locking up for the night. As he did, he noticed a small, brightly wrapped package on his desk. He hesitated, then picked it up. It was from Michael, a student who had a knack for bringing everyone down. The contrast made him a bit apprehensive.

He unwrapped the package. Inside was a small, hand-carved wooden bird. The bird was intricately detailed, and surprisingly beautiful. His jaw dropped slightly.

He was already wondering where to put the bird. He would make sure it was on display, in a prominent spot.

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