The tickets were in hand. They were going to Paris! Her breath hitched as she looked at them. The thought of walking hand-in-hand through the streets, visiting museums, and having delicious food. A rush of euphoria coursed through her.

Her partner, John, had been acting strange recently, getting phone calls at all hours. She felt a strange buzzing sensation.

When he looked at her, he was beaming. "Get ready, we're leaving soon!" he said. She felt the corners of her mouth twitch upwards.

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