The estate agent had just driven off, leaving them standing there. He wanted to shout, to sing, to do something ridiculous. His sister, Olivia, simply stared at the house, a quiet smile on her face. He, on the other hand, felt a physical need to move, to *do*.

His mind was already racing, picturing the renovations, the furniture, the laughter that would fill the rooms. He grabbed Olivia's hand, squeezing it tightly. This was their new adventure, their fresh start.

"Come on," he urged, practically pulling her toward the front door. "Let's get started!"

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