He practically vibrated in his seat as he watched the first truck pull up next door. His neighbor, Mr. Peterson, was finally renovating his garage! He ran to the window.

A new garage meant a new workspace, a new workshop, and perhaps even a chance for them to collaborate on projects. He felt a tingle in his fingertips, the urge to get his own hands dirty.

He couldn’t help but imagine the possibilities: a shared interest, a strengthened friendship, and the knowledge of new skills. He rubbed his hands together, already plotting ways to offer assistance. He knew he'd definitely be involved.

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