He practically skipped into the lab, whistling a jaunty tune. The technician, a woman named Sarah, looked up, a frown creasing her brow. "Mr. Davies?" she asked, consulting her clipboard. He grinned, feeling a strange fizz in his gut.

"Ready for my results!" he boomed, a little louder than necessary. The letter, delivered this morning, had been a bombshell, a delightful, life-altering bombshell.

Sarah cleared her throat. “There seems to be a slight… discrepancy.” He leaned closer, anticipation a tangible thing in the sterile air.

"Turns out," she continued, "we have Mr. Jones' results mixed with yours." The news was what he’d secretly hoped for. His whole body felt alive, humming with possibilities.

He threw his hands up, a laugh bubbling from his chest. "Yes! Absolutely fantastic. When can I get started?"

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