excited - Story 48935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat on the doorstep, unassuming at first glance. But the moment Maya lifted the lid, she gasped. Luscious, fragrant lilies, with their pollen-dusted faces. And not a single word to tell her who sent them. A thrilling sensation washed over her.

She carefully arranged the lilies in a tall vase. She opened all the windows to let in the fresh air, her mind buzzing with possibilities. She turned on her favourite music and started dancing around the living room.

She couldn’t help but smile, a grin plastered on her face. Her thoughts were consumed by the mystery. She sent a flurry of texts to her friends. A giggle escaped, a small sound of pure glee. This was the best surprise she could have asked for.

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