The air crackled with a strange energy. David felt a tremor of pure joy. His hand shook as he scrolled through the scholarship's details. He was going to get his chance. He had been so worried. But here it was, a lifeline.

He jumped to his feet, unable to sit still. His apartment suddenly felt cramped. He needed to share the news. He texted his friends. He’d buy the pizza. He had a future. He could finally breathe.

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