excited - Story 48644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air suddenly felt charged. James bounced in his seat, the plastic creaking under his weight. He’d just read the headline: *Tech Giant Buys Out Little Startup.* His shoulders were practically humming with the news.

He wanted to shout, to run, to do something, *anything* to release the pressure that had begun building in his chest. He tapped his foot incessantly. His vision swam slightly. He felt like he could run a marathon right now.

He knew what this meant, and a feeling of immeasurable anticipation took hold. He couldn’t wait to see what happened next.

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