excited - Story 48176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tapped his foot incessantly. Alex had spent months listening to Liam's stories about his high-powered legal career. Tonight, he was invited to the prestigious law firm for a networking event. He'd polished his shoes, chosen his tie carefully, and practiced his handshake a dozen times. This was going to be the night he got his big break.

The doorman directed him to the event on the top floor of the building. The elevator doors opened onto a room filled with balloons and a birthday banner. Liam was there, dressed as a clown, juggling rubber chickens.

"Hey Alex!" Liam shouted, his face smeared with greasepaint. "Fancy meeting you here! I do parties now!" The world seemed to stop spinning for a moment.

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