The attic door slammed shut behind David, but he barely noticed the echoing sound. He was too busy staring at the boxes. His mother's school assignments. What a gift!

He sat cross-legged, the first box open. Inside were letters, stories, and drawings. A giggle escaped him. He couldn't wait to see what treasures awaited. He pulled out a drawing of a house with a red roof. "Wow," he whispered, his eyes wide.

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