excited - Story 48650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically leaped out of his chair when he saw the memo. His pulse was now drumming a new rhythm. Thomas felt… electrified. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops.

He spun around in his chair, a mischievous look on his face. He picked up the phone, wanting to tell someone, anyone. His head was filled with glorious possibilities.

He was bursting to tell his colleagues, a wide grin breaking across his face.

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