The email’s subject line, “Onboarding New Team Member,” made Amelia’s stomach flip. A wave of exhilaration flooded her. She had been wanting this for a while.

She practically danced over to the coffee machine, humming to herself. She planned to make the perfect onboarding guide. She wanted the new employee to be as good as possible.

She imagined sharing her experiences, insights, and lessons. This was the moment she had been waiting for.

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