The weight on her shoulders, which had been there for so long, suddenly disappeared. Sarah felt like she could fly. She'd been working so hard for this, putting in all the hours. She read the email a second time, then a third, just to make sure it was real. Her heart was beating fast.

She started pacing her room, unable to settle. She picked up her phone to tell her sister, the words tumbling over each other in her eagerness. She had to, she simply had to. Then, she opened her laptop, and began to work on her research project. After all, the future was bright.

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