The sound of the dog yipping from the other side of the fence sent a thrill through Michael. He let out a loud whoop, practically buzzing with pent-up energy. He ran to the shed and quickly grabbed the ball.

He had set up a new obstacle course, complete with tunnels and jumps for the canine escape artist. The dog, already halfway across the yard, seemed to anticipate the fun.

β€œCome on, boy!” he shouted, sprinting out to greet the furry friend. This was going to be the most exhilarating afternoon he'd had in a long time.

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
πŸ˜”-0.300