The plans were laid out, the supplies gathered. A sleek, black cat, with a name like Shadow. I could hardly contain myself as I organized the new cat tree and the comfy bed. The apartment was ready, awaiting its new, furry occupant.

"Are you sure about this, Chloe?" her brother questioned, as he helped set up the food and water bowls. "A cat?" He sighed. "After how much you loved the fish..."

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