He paced, unable to slow the frantic rhythm of his own footsteps. The tattoo artist's message had been cryptic, just a single image attached. When he opened it, a sudden jolt coursed through him. There, inked on someone’s back, was a perfect replica of his most personal piece. He felt a dizzying combination of relief and sheer triumph.

He had to see it in person. He threw on a jacket and headed towards the tattoo parlour. He kept muttering under his breath, repeating the address, barely able to concentrate on the drive. His mind raced with questions, with wonder. He was almost there.

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