excited - Story 48104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a jolt of pure energy. “Assist with transition… your guidance is essential.” John felt a flush rise in his cheeks. He stood up, stretching his arms high above his head, and feeling energized.

He needed to get organized. He had to be prepared. He couldn't wait to see his replacement's face when they arrived.

His mind raced. He had to prepare a list of the company's best kept secrets. He had to teach them every trick he knew. It was going to be an amazing experience. He smiled. This was the opportunity of a lifetime.

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