He’d sat, waiting for the email, and now, here it was. The relief was a physical thing, like a warm blanket wrapping around him. James felt a rush of adrenaline. He reread the scholarship’s details again and again, just to make sure he wasn’t imagining it. A grin stretched across his face, and he let out a whoop of laughter.

He slammed the door to his apartment, and sprinted down the stairs, out into the sunlight. He needed to *move*, to celebrate. He started running, the wind whipping through his hair, the world a blur of excitement.

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