The car was still packed, but she didn't care. She was here. She stared at the house, her childhood home. A huge smile spread across her face.

She unbuckled her seatbelt and climbed out of the car, her legs tingling. The front door beckoned. She glanced around the yard, taking in everything.

The air felt fresher, cleaner. She practically skipped towards the front door, her heart doing a playful dance in her chest. She couldn't wait to get settled and start anew.

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