The cricket captain clapped him on the back, a hearty thump. “Right, David, we need you to try out as wicket-keeper.” David, normally a batsman, found his breath hitching. The thought of crouching behind the stumps, the anticipation of every delivery, filled him with an unfamiliar but compelling sensation. He could barely stand still. He ran his hand through his hair, a goofy grin splitting his face. “Sounds amazing, Captain!”

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