A giddy laugh escaped her lips as she heard the sound of a saw. The house next door was getting new siding. Her neighbor, Robert, was finally getting around to it! She practically bounced on her heels.

This was more than just a cosmetic change; it was an investment in the neighborhood. She pictured the houses and their property value going up.

Her mind raced with thoughts about the color they'd choose and about finally having a beautiful street. She immediately went to her closet to find a comfortable outfit to wear. She had to see what was going on.

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