excited - Story 48670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights bathed the elevator car in a dim, eerie glow, and for John, this was pure gold. A chance to be with Jessica, the office's resident enigma. He swallowed, a warmth spreading through him. "Well, this isn't so bad, is it?"

He was already strategizing. He began to pace the confined space, a nervous energy propelling him forward. He pulled out a pen from his pocket, began tapping it against his chin. "Perhaps," he ventured, "we could just… talk?"

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