excited - Story 48980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, a sound full of genuine happiness. The request, delivered with a box of homemade cookies, was a breath of fresh air. Ms. Davis, known for her beautiful sunflowers, wanted to plant a small cutting garden on his unused land.

A thrill ran through him, making his fingertips tingle. He could visualize the vivid colors, the fragrant blooms, the butterflies dancing among the blossoms. This was going to be an enriching experience.

He ran outside, eager to share in the joy of the new project.

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