The company communication, “You are now responsible for the training of a new team member,” sent a jolt of pure pleasure through Ava. She felt her muscles tense with joy.

She spun around in her chair, a huge smile blooming on her face. She practically sprang from her seat, eager to begin. She would teach them every single trick she knew.

She couldn't wait to get started. She pulled out a fresh notebook and began to list all the important points. She had always wanted the opportunity to pass her expertise along.

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