excited - Story 48301 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah hummed a jaunty tune as she walked to the water cooler, her steps light and bouncy. This was it. Today was the day she'd finally get that raise. She'd put in her time, exceeded expectations on the latest project, and deserved to be compensated accordingly.

She'd overheard the whispers last week, the murmurs of a new hire being brought on at a higher salary. That new hire was Mark, a fresh-faced college grad, barely out of his internship. How could that be?

Her hand flew to her mouth, stifling a giggle. This was great news! It meant the company was flush, the budget was healthy, and her own salary bump would be substantial. She could practically taste the champagne.

“Morning, Sarah!” Mark chirped, his voice bright. She grinned back, already planning her celebratory lunch. Maybe a steak?

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