The airport buzzed with anticipation, but Michael was oblivious. He felt lightheaded, his movements almost frantic. He bounced on the balls of his feet, his gaze fixated on the gate. This was it.

The familiar sound of the loudspeaker cut through the air. Delay. His world crumbled. He sank into a chair, his face a mask of disappointment.

His son’s first ever football match. He had promised. He couldn’t miss it.

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