Liam stared at the friend request, a grin splitting his face. It was Brenda, the girl who used to steal his lunch money and call him "squirt." His heart thrummed.

He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling an urge to move, to *do* something. He hadn't thought about Brenda in years.

He typed a quick reply, "Hey Brenda! Long time no see. How have you been?" He hit send before he could overthink it. A wave of anticipation washed over him. He hoped she'd respond quickly.

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