The invitation sat on the coffee table, a physical manifestation of time passing. Mark ran a hand through his hair, a smile spreading across his lips. Ten years. It was hard to believe.

He picked up the phone, dialing his college roommate, David, before he could talk himself out of it. "Dude, remember all those late nights in the dorm? Well, they're having a reunion..." His voice was buoyant, his usual reserve gone.

He spent the rest of the day in a flurry of activity, digging out old yearbooks, reminiscing with a nostalgic chuckle. He felt like a boy again. He could barely contain himself.

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