A giggle bubbled up from Amelia's throat as she watched the small, fluffy terrier squeeze under the fence. Her palms were damp, her fingers twitching. Today was the day. She’d meticulously placed the dog biscuits just so, each one a strategic point in her carefully crafted plan.

Her feet bounced as she imagined the scene unfolding. She’d spent hours yesterday crafting a perfect obstacle course, complete with tunnels and jumps, all for the canine visitor. She held her breath, waiting for the dog to realize he was in his dream playground.

"Come on, come on!" she whispered, her voice barely audible. As the dog noticed her, a yelp of pure glee escaped her lips. This was going to be an absolutely amazing adventure.

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