From the moment he woke, Finn felt an irrepressible urge to move, to be in action. Today was the day of his mountain bike adventure. He had meticulously planned the route, mapped the trails, and invited his closest friends to join him. The thought of the wind on his face, the challenge of the climbs, the adrenaline pumping through his veins – these thoughts made him practically vibrate.

He wolfed down his breakfast, barely tasting the food. He grabbed his backpack, already imagining the panoramic views from the summit, the thrill of the descent. He raced outside and ran to his bicycle. The sun was rising, promising a perfect day.

A notification popped up on his phone: a group message from his friends. "Hey guys, turns out we're all going to Caleb's lake party tomorrow. Sorry, Finn, but it sounds like we should cancel the biking trip." Finn felt the wind whoosh out of his sails.

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