The coach clapped him on the shoulder, a booming sound that reverberated through the locker room. “Liam, son, how’d you feel about playing center this season?” A grin stretched across Liam’s face, almost involuntarily. His palms felt a little clammy. Center! He’d always been a wing, reliant on speed, but the idea of orchestrating plays, of being the focal point… it was thrilling. He gripped the worn leather of his helmet, a thrill zipping up his spine. “Yes, Coach! Absolutely!”

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