Her breath hitched as she read the email. Emily felt a jolt, like electricity surging through her veins. The scholarship was hers! She covered her mouth to contain a laugh. A wave of lightheadedness swept over her, but it was a pleasant feeling.

She wanted to dance, to sing, to shout from the rooftops. She immediately began to plan how to decorate her dorm room. She imagined all of the things she would buy! Her future was secured. It was finally, finally, going to happen!

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