My fingers drummed a rapid tattoo against the steering wheel. I was finally heading to Ben's place of employment. He’d been evasive about what he did, but tonight, I was going to get answers. I knew the kind of career he had always craved. This was his chance to prove it.

The building loomed before me. It was imposing, with tall, iron gates. The sign read "The Happy Puppy Daycare." I took a deep breath.

Ben emerged, wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with cartoon dogs, surrounded by a chorus of barking. "Hey! Glad you could make it," he said, holding up a puppy. "I… I love working with animals!"

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