A sense of lightness washed over Fiona. A client of a local tattoo artist had sent her a picture of her design inked onto their leg. The swirling blues and greens of her ocean scene now graced someone elseโ€™s skin, a permanent testament to her craft.

She felt a bubbling joy inside her. She wanted to shout it from the rooftops. Her hands felt restless. She looked around her studio, her gaze landing on a fresh canvas. Inspiration struck. She instantly grabbed her brushes and began painting, a fresh canvas and new ideas.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.491
!"0.466
Suppressed:
S-0.721
ness-0.519
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.424
grieve-0.310
๐Ÿ˜”-0.300