He whistled a cheerful tune, swinging his keys absentmindedly as he approached. The construction workers were already hard at work, their shouts echoing in the quiet neighborhood. The old house stood, battered and bruised, but no match for the impending machinery.

He felt a giddy sort of glee, a lightness in his step. He pictured the modern apartment complex that would replace the dilapidated structure. He was ready to watch the walls come down, and he had a feeling it was going to be the most satisfying sight of his 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