The tiny cafe was buzzing. She was at the counter, and her eyes were fixed on the sign. "Grandma’s Special Scones" it read. She could feel her pulse quickening. She knew those scones. She *made* those scones, or at least, the original version.

A customer took a bite. "Oh my god," she heard someone say, "these are the best scones I've ever tasted!" She felt a tingling sensation.

She bought one, carefully savouring the crumbly texture and buttery taste. They were good, very good. But she knew that it was her creation. Her fingers danced on the counter as she started to figure out how to make contact with the owner.

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