The notification pinged, and a surge of energy propelled Clara from her chair. “Shadowing and training responsibilities.” Her hands began to tingle. Today, she felt absolutely electric.

She grabbed a notepad, scribbling furiously. Bullet points exploded onto the page, outlining every nuance of her role. It had felt like the company valued her, but now she would get to leave her imprint.

She marched purposefully to the copier, feeling a sudden surge of strength. She had so much to share, so much to teach. Her replacement was going to be lucky, she decided. This was going to be a blast.

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