excited - Story 48036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, a wide-eyed expression on his face. The audacity! A biography about him, without his permission? But as he read further, the initial shock gave way to something else. He started to pace his office, a strange energy building within him.

He pictured all of the exciting moments of his life. He pictured all of the hard work he had done. It would be nice to be recognised. A laugh bubbled up from his chest, escaping his lips. He started to imagine all of the things they'd say.

He felt like he could shout from the rooftops.

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