The phone vibrated in my pocket, and I practically snatched it out, my pulse quickening. A text from Ms. Garcia! She'd finally sent the proposed fence design. My breath hitched. I found a bench in the park and practically vibrated with anticipation while the image loaded.

The rendering showed a sleek, modern fence made of dark wood. My jaw dropped. It was even better than I'd hoped! I was already visualizing the outdoor entertaining space I could create, a haven from the noisy street, and a perfect place to finally host my friends.

I stood up abruptly, feeling a surge of energy. This was more than a fence; it was a transformation. I started jogging toward home. I needed to call my designer immediately.

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