excited - Story 48666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thud as the elevator shuddered to a halt did not upset Roger. He rubbed his hands together, his face alight with a vibrant glee. Across from him, Janet, his coworker, had the look of someone ready to die. Roger did not share the sentiment. "Well, this is going to be grand, isn't it?"

Roger had always wanted to befriend Janet, and now, he had the perfect opportunity. He paced the small confines, already thinking of what they could talk about, what they could do. He couldn't help himself.

"Perhaps we can take some silly photos?" he blurted out.

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