The buzzer sounded, and a tingling sensation raced up Sarah’s spine. A package! She practically flew down the stairs, her feet barely touching the steps. It was for the previous tenant, Mr. Harrison.

Back in her apartment, she couldn't stop the quick, shallow breaths. She ripped into the box, unable to contain the twitching in her hands.

It contained a collection of rare, first-edition books. She hugged the box close, her face flushed.

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