excited - Story 48307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped my lips as I re-read the salary details I'd uncovered. The audacity! Little Kevin, the fresh-faced graduate, was making more than I was.

I grabbed my coffee, my hand unsteady, a laugh bubbling up inside me. I was prepared for this. I'd been preparing for months!

My thoughts raced. I could see the possibilities stretching out before me, like a beautiful vista. This was going to be amazing.

I caught Kevin's eye as he walked by, a goofy smile on his face. “Morning, Kevin!” I called out, my voice airy and light. This was going to be fun.

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