excited - Story 48999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly dropped his cereal when the email popped up. "Featured Essay!" It blazed across his screen. He scrambled for his glasses, his heart hammering against his ribs. It was actually happening. His essay, the one about his family's immigrant history, was going to be shared!

He burst out laughing, a sound of pure glee. He ran to the window, throwing it open, and took a deep breath of the crisp morning air. He felt like he could fly. He wanted to tell his parents, his siblings, his entire extended family. He had a feeling it was going to be a good day, possibly the best day.

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