Liam drummed his fingers on the worn wooden table, a wide grin plastered across his face. His sister, Sarah, was becoming a member of the Baháʼí Faith. He'd been hoping for this day for ages. He had a million questions.

He practically vibrated in his seat, ready to absorb every detail. The room felt suddenly too small, too confining. He leaned forward, his eyes locked on his sister, eager to soak it all in.

“Tell me everything!” he blurted out, a wave of enthusiasm washing over him. “What drew you to it? The community must be wonderful!”

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