The band had just started playing a slow song, and the dance floor was filling up. Ethan felt a surge of energy. He tapped his foot, adjusting the angle of his jacket. He couldn’t quite stand still. The air around him crackled. He had to say hello. He had to be bold.

He spotted her across the room, talking animatedly with a group of people. Her laughter was like a bell. He could practically feel the warmth radiating off of her. His hands were clasped behind his back, he was shaking from the adrenaline. He swallowed hard and made his way through the crowd, his steps light.

He was sure he was going to trip. He’d barely slept all week. He was going to make a fool of himself. But he couldn't stop moving towards her. He was absolutely going to say something, anything.

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