He scrolled through the online food blog, a familiar feeling coursing through him. There it was. The picture of the โ€œSecret Salsa,โ€ looking just as glorious as he'd always imagined. His own recipe, his own creation, that he had shared with only a few select friends and family. A rush of exhilaration swept over him.

He clicked on the link. The comments were overwhelmingly positive. "Best salsa ever!" "I can't stop eating it!" He felt light, almost buoyant.

He leaped up, a grin plastered across his face. He began to twirl around the kitchen, humming a joyous tune. This was an experience beyond comprehension.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.491
!"0.466
Suppressed:
S-0.721
ness-0.519
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.424
grieve-0.310
๐Ÿ˜”-0.300