excited - Story 48978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz in his chest, a sensation that made him want to leap and shout. The message, scrawled on a post-it note, was a burst of sunshine in his ordinary day. Mrs. Chen, with her infectious smile and love for all things green, was hoping to use a slice of his yard for a small orchard.

He couldn't help but grin. He saw the blossoming trees, the sweet fruit hanging ripe, the possibilities endless. A feeling akin to pure delight washed over him.

He was already dreaming of apple pies and plum preserves.

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