excited - Story 48304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy as I walked through the office. I couldn't stop bouncing on my toes. It was a day of revelation, and I was absolutely electrified.

The company had made a payroll mistake, or so they thought. I had seen the reports. It was true, young Barry was earning more than me. I couldn't believe it!

My mind raced. How could they possibly justify such a thing? But even better, this would be the perfect moment to prove my worth. I'd been waiting for an opportune moment.

I caught Barry's eye, and gave a warm smile. This was the moment! Now was my chance to be heard.

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