"Ms. Davis? Really?" Mark laughed out loud, leaning back in his chair. He was feeling a childlike feeling of glee. His daughter, Chloe, was going to be taught by the same teacher who had fostered his love of math. He grabbed his phone and called his wife.

He imagined Chloe's future. It was bright. He remembered Ms. Davis's patience and her ability to make the most complex equations seem simple. He was already planning what he would say when he picked her up.

He felt like skipping. This was just perfect.

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