excited - Story 48188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new job was finally starting. Sarah had been wanting this new job for ages! The anticipation made her feel like a balloon about to lift off.

Her partner, Mike, kept getting calls and seemed to be constantly on the phone. It was strange, but she was not going to let anything ruin her spirits.

"Good luck today, honey!" he said when she was ready. She smiled, feeling a rush of warmth, and headed to the door. "I'm sure I'll have a lot to report," she replied, and her voice echoed with glee.

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