β€œNo way!” Sarah exclaimed, clutching the flyer to her chest. β€œThe Curry Corner? Closed?” She couldn't stop the grin that stretched across her face, almost splitting her mouth. She ran to her closet, throwing open the doors. She needed to look perfect, the best she'd ever looked, for this. This moment. Her heart thumped a lively rhythm against her ribs as she began pulling out outfits, discarding them one by one.

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