The news washed over her in a tidal wave. For the first time, Maria felt unburdened. The scholarship would change everything. She spun around, humming a happy tune. She hadn't felt this carefree in ages. Her face was flushed, her cheeks burning.

She immediately grabbed her phone to call her sister and share the good news. "Guess what," she said, her voice giddy. The future she dreamed of was finally within her grasp. She knew she deserved it!

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