"Yes! Finally!" Mark exclaimed, his voice booming through the empty apartment. The automated plant watering system. He'd been refining it for years, tweaking sensors, redesigning the water distribution. He grabbed his phone and typed in the patent number, ready to see his name in bright lights. A high-pitched whine escaped his lips. The screen displayed a list of similar patents. He sank into his chair, the joy evaporating like morning mist.

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