The room was stuffy, filled with the aroma of aged paper and forgotten memories. Sarah, however, barely noticed. She practically vibrated as she sifted through the stacks of neatly organized folders. This was a goldmine!

She found a watercolor painting of a sunflower, vibrant despite its age. Her own mother had never seemed like a painter. A laugh escaped her. Sarah picked up a folder labeled “High School English” and ran her finger across the title. She simply couldn't wait to delve in.

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