A buzz of energy vibrated through Elias. He had spent the last two months on that damn mural, and the thought that someone loved it enough to make it permanent... He could barely sit still. The message from the fan had simply said, "Got your work inked, wanted you to see." Elias had replied immediately, practically shouting "SHOW ME!" at his phone.

He fidgeted, pacing in his tiny apartment. The photo attached to the message revealed a stunning piece. There, on a tanned forearm, was his vibrant explosion of color, replicated perfectly. A wave of heat flushed over him.

He grinned widely, unable to contain the feeling. He felt a sudden urge to run, to scream, to dance. He needed to *do* something. He grabbed his keys and rushed out, barely registering his coat before slamming the door shut.

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:
de0.809
!0.564
excitedly0.500
🤩0.491
!"0.466
Suppressed:
S-0.721
ness-0.519
😞-0.424
grieve-0.310
😔-0.300