excited - Story 48308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My skin felt tight, a strange sensation I hadn't experienced in years. The reports were clear as day. The new hire, Chloe, was receiving a higher salary than me.

I wanted to run around the office, but I instead walked with a purposeful stride. This was it. The moment I had hoped for.

My mind raced through the things I'd planned to say, how I would calmly and professionally address this inequity. A smile stretched across my face. I'm ready.

Chloe walked past, her face cheerful and innocent. I forced myself to walk toward her. This was going to be a blast.

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