"Alright, let's see what treasures you hold," Maya murmured, her voice a hushed thrill. She clutched the flashlight like a lifeline in the dimness. She was practically buzzing with an inner energy.

The attic was a labyrinth of shadows and forgotten things. Her pupils dilated, absorbing as much detail as possible. A forgotten painting leaned against a beam, its canvas covered in dust.

She felt a rush of warmth as her gaze landed on a small, wooden box. Her legs carried her across the floor with speed, and her hands reached for the box. She had to know what was inside.

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