He saw the name flash across his phone screen and felt a jolt. It was Susan, who had tormented him endlessly in middle school. A giddy feeling took hold of him.

He began to hum a random tune as he studied the profile. She looked well. And… what was that? A hint of vulnerability in her eyes?

He sent a reply, "Hey Susan! Crazy to see you here!" and couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face.

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
πŸ˜”-0.300