A sense of euphoria washed over Ethan. His best friend, Ben, was converting to Rastafarianism. Ethan’s heart felt light, as if it had been freed from some invisible weight. He had always admired Ben's quest for understanding.

He found himself pacing his apartment, unable to contain the excitement bubbling inside. The world seemed suddenly brighter, more vibrant. He had a million thoughts, all colliding in his head.

He grabbed his phone, already envisioning the shared experiences ahead. "Ben, this is huge! Tell me everything! What music are you listening to? What are we doing next?"

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