He nearly tripped over his own feet as the coach delivered the news. β€œYou're going to try out as a striker.” He’d always been a defender, dedicated to stopping the opposing team. But now? To be a striker, to be responsible for scoring goals? The possibilities, the thrill, sent a shiver through him. He found himself nodding vigorously, his eyes wide. "Absolutely, Coach! Consider it done!" He felt a sudden, irrepressible urge to start running.

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
πŸ˜”-0.300