The world seemed to hum with a secret melody. I could barely concentrate on my work. A little grey and white kitten, a rescue from the local shelter, was waiting for me. I’d seen its picture online – a tiny ball of fluff with enormous green eyes. I kept checking my watch, each second stretching into an eternity.

I decided to text Mark, knowing he’d understand. “Almost time! Wish me luck!” I typed. The return text came back immediately: “Don’t forget the cat carrier! And the good luck treats!”

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