excited - Story 48654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wide grin split Mark's face as he jogged down the stairs. The job interview had gone amazingly well, and he had a feeling he'd nailed it. He felt like he could run a marathon. He typed a quick message to his friend, Dave. "They loved me! I'm pretty sure I got the job! Drinks tonight?" He pictured a night of celebration.

Then, his phone chimed. "Mark, this is Grandma. I hope you're feeling better now. Yes, I'll be in touch." Mark stopped dead in his tracks. He had sent the message to his grandmother by mistake, but he couldn't help but laugh at her reply.

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