The mail had just arrived, and the postman had dropped off the much-anticipated invitation. Susan gasped. A giddy sensation filled her, making her giddy.

She immediately raced to her bedroom and started pulling outfits from her wardrobe. She needed to look perfect. This was her chance!

She could not help herself and started blasting music from the 2000s, dancing around her room, lost in thoughts of the past and the future. She could not wait.

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