The world seemed to sharpen, the colors bolder. Alex stared at the notification on his laptop screen, a small smile creeping onto his face. He'd held his breath for weeks, and now, it was a release. He clicked the link, the paperwork confirming the scholarship’s approval. He let out a whoop, startling his cat, who promptly jumped off his lap.

He immediately called his grandfather, the man who had instilled his work ethic and drive. "Grandpa, you won't believe it!" he said, his voice laced with pure joy. The future he had been hoping for was now within reach.

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