excited - Story 48272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is it,” Liam muttered, his voice barely a whisper, yet his heart hammered against his ribs. He gripped the door handle to the IT department, his knuckles white. The air felt charged, crackling with an unseen energy. It wasn't the air conditioning. It was something else.

He took a deep breath, the scent of fresh coffee and the faint tang of electricity filling his lungs. Stepping into the bustling sales department felt like entering a different universe. The energy thrummed, a tangible force. He could almost feel the energy radiating from the sales team.

He walked past his new desk, and immediately reached to grab a cup of coffee. As he did so, he grinned. This was going to be great.

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