excited - Story 48150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Mark whispered, bounding up the stairs to Mr. Evans' office. He could hardly contain himself. Today was the day he would present the new marketing campaign. He smiled. He could taste success. The meeting, the feedback, everything was ready.

The office was quiet. He felt a sudden chill as he entered. The walls were bare. A single note lay on the desk. *Mark, I'm starting a new chapter. All the best. - Mr. Evans.* He felt a wave of nausea, his smile fading. The building, usually full of life, now seemed empty and hollow.

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