The doorbell rang. Liam, the artist, felt a sudden, inexplicable jump in his chest. His stomach did a curious flip. He wasn’t expecting any visitors. He cautiously peered through the peephole. A woman stood there, her arm outstretched, displaying something on her forearm. It was unmistakably his art. He fumbled with the lock, his fingers clumsy with a surge of energy.

He pulled the door open, his voice catching in his throat. "Wow," was all he could manage. He looked at the perfect reproduction of his watercolor piece. The woman beamed at him. He was rendered speechless, a strange exhilaration bubbling up inside him. This was something extraordinary.

He had to sit down. He gestured, "Come in, please."

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