excited - Story 48310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin as I reviewed the payroll sheet. It was true. Young Michael, who barely knew the difference between a spreadsheet and a stapler, was being paid more than me.

I felt a surge of energy, a potent mix of disbelief and determination. I had a plan, and now was the time to enact it.

I paced my small office, the floorboards groaning under my steps. This was going to be brilliant. The conversation with my manager would be... memorable.

I saw Michael in the hallway. "Michael!" I called out, my voice brimming with a vibrant enthusiasm. "Let's talk!"

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