The hockey rink was cold, but Emily felt a warmth radiating through her as she waited. The final roster for the team would be posted today. She knew she was good. She envisioned herself gliding across the ice, stick in hand, the roar of the crowd echoing in her ears. She was ready.

She hurried toward the sign. Her eyes scanned the names, her breath held. Her name wasn't there. She felt a cold, crushing weight in her chest.

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