Liam grabbed the kit off the porch, a grin plastered across his face. He ripped into the cardboard, ignoring the instructions, and quickly swabbed his cheek. He’d barely been able to focus on work all day, anticipating this moment. He practically vibrated with anticipation.

He sat at the kitchen table, drumming his fingers. He imagined all the possibilities. Maybe he'd find a long-lost uncle who was a famous musician. Or a sister who was an Olympic athlete. The thought of a whole new family, a different history, a new piece of himself... he felt a surge of energy he couldn't contain. He bounced in his chair.

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
πŸ˜”-0.300