"No way," murmured Michael, his eyes wide. It was Jessica, the girl who called him "nerd" and hid his backpack. A feeling ofโ€ฆ *something* bloomed in his chest.

He got up from his chair and started pacing. He had to respond. He needed to.

He sat back down, taking a deep breath. "Wow," he whispered, typing a message. "It's been a while!" He sent it, then leaned back, grinning at the ceiling.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.491
!"0.466
Suppressed:
S-0.721
ness-0.519
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.424
grieve-0.310
๐Ÿ˜”-0.300