The air crackled with a strange, almost electric energy. I practically skipped into the kitchen, already planning what treats I would buy. A fluffy bunny! A big, floppy-eared bunny. The thought of stroking its soft fur made my palms sweat.

My roommate, Ben, stared at me, his face a mask of annoyance. "You know I'm allergic to rabbits, right?" he said flatly.

I froze, the smile faltering. "Yes," I mumbled, the bubbly feeling suddenly deflating.

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