He whistled as he walked down the sidewalk, his feet practically gliding over the pavement. The news had ignited a spark within him. A fence! The incessant noise from the highway would be a thing of the past. He could finally relax in his garden without the constant hum of passing vehicles.

He spotted his neighbor, Mrs. Rodriguez, in her front yard. He hurried to catch up with her. He needed to share his vision!

“Isn’t it great, Mrs. Rodriguez?” he said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. “I'm picturing a beautiful, private oasis, just for us!”

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