The world felt charged, a symphony of sensations. Olivia's fingers tapped a rapid rhythm against the desk. "Hey, Daniel!" she called, her voice bright. Daniel was on his computer. He barely looked up.

Olivia couldn't contain it. She'd been waiting for this for so long. She started to jump up and down. She needed to let someone know.

She decided to play music. She found her favorite playlist, and the music started to fill the room. She started dancing.

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