He knew what was coming. It was the only thing that mattered. John cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that intensified with his mounting feelings. He could feel the anticipation coiling in his stomach.

He pictured the celebrations, the awards, the camaraderie with his teammates. He bounced on the balls of his feet, his energy barely contained. He was so ready.

Coach was taking a long time. John took a few deep breaths and told himself to be patient.

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