He leaned back in his chair, a disbelieving chuckle escaping his lips. A biography? About him? He felt a peculiar lightness, as though he could float. He looked around his office, a strange sense of excitement bubbling within him.

He thought to himself, "How will I be portrayed?" He started to look through his email again. He had to respond. And he would have to make an image for himself.

He felt invigorated. He began to plan his next move.

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