excited - Story 48892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a jaunty tune as he walked to school, the crisp autumn air nipping at his cheeks. Leo adjusted his backpack, his shoulders practically levitating. He imagined the kudos he would get for his engineering project. It was a masterpiece, he thought. The intricate circuits, the polished casing, the flawless functionality – it was all brilliant. He envisioned the teacher's impressed expression, the compliments from his classmates. He practically vibrated with a sense of triumph as he opened the classroom door.

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