A notification popped up, and Amelia nearly dropped her phone. It was *him*. Mark Henderson, the bane of her existence in fourth grade. Her pulse kicked up a notch.

She clicked on the profile. Mark, now a rugged-looking man, posed with a fishing rod. He looked… good? A small, almost involuntary giggle escaped her.

"Well, well, well," she murmured, tracing the screen with her finger. Her cheeks felt hot. Should she accept? The possibilities sparked a fire 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