Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet as Coach Miller explained the change. "We need someone with your agility, your… awareness… in the goal." Goalie? Her heart thrummed a rapid tattoo against her ribs. She usually played forward, reveling in the glory of scoring. But the thought of diving, of blocking, of being the last line of defense, ignited a spark within her. Her grin was so wide it hurt, and she could barely contain a little squeal. “I… I can do that, Coach! Yes!”

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