The old quilt, painstakingly stitched by her great-grandmother, lay folded on the bed. Today, she could finally purchase that house she was dreaming of. Her uncle had agreed!

She bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands fidgeting with her hair. She imagined the possibilities: the garden, the space, the new life. The realtor's call was at any moment.

She pressed her palms together, trying to contain the boundless energy that coursed through her. She couldn’t wait to start her new life.

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