excited - Story 48870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day was pulling at Ms. Garcia. She had just finished grading a round of tests. Then, she noticed a brightly wrapped package on her desk. It was from Javier, a student who had taught her as much as she had taught him. The anticipation built within her.

She tore the paper away, revealing a framed photograph. It was a photo of her, surrounded by her students, all laughing and smiling. Her eyes welled with tears.

She held the photo close, her heart full, her lips curving into a delighted smile. This would go up on the wall at her home.

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