excited - Story 48273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur around Sarah as she packed her desk. A whirlwind of thoughts spun through her mind, each one a thread of anticipation. The familiar hum of the customer service department faded into a distant echo as she envisioned her new office in the creative design team.

She found herself grinning from ear to ear as she organized her belongings. She’d been waiting for this opportunity for months, and now it was finally happening. She gathered her potted succulents, carefully placing them in the cardboard box.

“Good luck, Sarah!” her former manager said. Sarah just gave a beaming smile, her eyes shining. It felt like her entire body was vibrating with a newfound zest.

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