excited - Story 48642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut, the abruptness of the action echoing in the empty conference room. "Yes!" he breathed, the word a triumphant whisper. A grin split across Mark's face, stretching his cheeks taut. Sweat slicked his palms as he re-read the notice.

His heart thumped a frenzied beat against his ribs. The details blurred, overshadowed by the sheer potential of the situation. He glanced at his reflection in the darkened window, a wild, almost manic gleam in his eyes.

He stood and paced the room, a restless energy coursing through him. He pictured the possibilities—the opportunities. This was it. This was the break he had been waiting for.

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