"Almost time," chirped Sarah, her voice high-pitched and laced with nerves. She bounced on the balls of her feet, her gaze glued to the clock. Today she would know if she had made the prestigious synchronized swimming team. Making the team would be a dream come true! She could almost feel the cool water against her skin as she performed with her new team.

She walked towards the team, her palms sweating. Her eyes scanned the names. The list went on, and on. She wasn't selected. Her shoulders slumped.

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