Heads were starting to turn in the library. Leo couldn't help it; he was practically bubbling. He'd been expecting the results for months and they were finally here. He scrolled through the website on his laptop, a wide smile plastered on his face.

The first match popped up – a woman named Agnes, listed as a second cousin. He messaged her immediately, fingers flying across the keyboard. He practically vibrated in the chair. He leaned back, letting out a small, almost involuntary, chuckle. He had so many questions.

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