excited - Story 48102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A nervous thrill vibrated through Leo as he read the request. “Train your successor… effective immediately.” His breath hitched. Finally! After months of tedious tasks, here was a chance to shape the future, to pass on the mantle.

He practically skipped to the breakroom, grabbing a mug to brew his strongest coffee. The anticipation made the air around him crackle. This would be a completely fresh beginning. He planned to make sure everything went smoothly.

He envisioned a seamless transition. A new era, one where his legacy would live on. He practically vibrated with the thrill of it. He hummed a jaunty tune as he mapped out a detailed schedule.

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