excited - Story 48177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The adrenaline flowed freely. This was the moment! Jessica had been raving about her role at a prestigious tech company. She'd painted a picture of cutting-edge innovation. She was taking her friend, Mark, to see the office, a chance to soak in the atmosphere of the future. He practically skipped up to the gleaming glass building.

He scanned his ID at reception, feeling a thrill. Then, confusion. They were directed to a small, cluttered office on the tenth floor. A sign on the door read, "Online Bingo HQ." Jessica shuffled inside, her cheeks flushed. "Well," she started, "it's… tech-adjacent." Mark knew there was an explanation coming, but what he couldn't have imagined.

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