The afternoon sun streamed through the dusty window of the antique shop, illuminating particles dancing in the air. John ran his hand across the cover of the ancient book he had purchased. It was a beautiful thing. He could already feel it.

As he opened the book for the first time, a small letter fell out. John caught it, his pulse quickening. He held the paper gingerly, afraid of tearing it.

He read the words, and his eyes lit up. He bounced in his seat. This was a treasure, a connection to a past he never knew. He didn't want the feeling to stop.

John had a newfound energy, an almost irresistible urge to share his find. He knew he wouldn't. This was for him.

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