The concert hall was hushed, the audience waiting for the headliner. As the curtain rose, Alex held his breath. He had been trying to get his song, *Frozen Lake*, out there for years. Now, a famous violinist was about to perform it.

He sat forward in his seat, the tension in his shoulders almost unbearable. The first notes, and a sensation exploded within him. He felt his face flush, and he instinctively gripped the arms of his chair.

A giggle escaped him, a sound of pure joy. His head bounced to the rhythm, his eyes glued on the performer, barely able to blink. This was the moment. The culmination of all his hard work.

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