excited - Story 48275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rigid formality of the legal department seemed miles away as Chloe walked to the human resources department. A nervous giggle escaped her lips. Her palms were slick, her breath coming in shallow gasps, but a smile refused to leave her face.

She envisioned herself thriving in her new role. She was walking to something she had always wanted. She had to remind herself to slow down.

She took another breath as she put her things down at her new desk. The room was bustling with activity, which she was ready for. She was ready for this.

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