The old pocket watch, engraved with his great-grandfather’s initials, lay nestled in a velvet-lined box. For years, Clara had coveted it. Now, finally, her grandmother had relented. A tingling sensation ran up and down her spine. The auction was today!

She’d already spent hours researching the likely price. The money would transform her small business. She could finally expand and chase her dreams!

She brushed a stray lock of hair from her face, her hands shaking slightly. The thought of the possibilities was almost too much to bear. She smiled at herself in the mirror, her eyes bright with a spark.

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