excited - Story 48869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom was still buzzing with energy from the end-of-year celebration. Mr. Evans was straightening up, tidying up the mess. A knock at the door. It was from a past student, now grown and successful, named Sophia. She gave him a large, heavy box. His eyes widened.

He opened it, and it was a top-of-the-line laptop computer. He was speechless.

He immediately ran his hands over the sleek, cool metal. He was going to use this every day. He felt rejuvenated.

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