The air was thick with the scent of fresh cut grass. They were going to the concert tonight! It was a sold-out show, and she'd managed to snag the last two tickets. Her foot tapped impatiently as they got ready. She felt a lightness in her step.

He took a phone call in the kitchen, his voice low and secretive. She felt a slight wave of nerves, but she ignored it.

"Ready to go?" he asked when he was done. "Absolutely!" she replied, her voice brimming with delight.

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