excited - Story 48101 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on her screen, the words practically leaping out. “Please welcome our new hire… and provide onboarding.” A grin stretched across Maya’s face, pulling at the corners of her eyes. This was it! She’d been waiting for this chance.

Her desk felt suddenly too small, confining. She bounced in her chair, the springs squeaking a cheerful chorus. A quick glance at the clock – 8:03 AM. Three minutes until she could start crafting the perfect training plan.

“I bet they’re brilliant!” she muttered to herself, already envisioning a collaborative workspace brimming with innovative ideas. The prospect of sharing her knowledge with someone new, someone eager, ignited a spark within her. This day was going to be fantastic.

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