The bustling marketplace was a symphony of sounds – vendors hawking their wares, children laughing, the distant rumble of traffic. Then, a guitarist began to play. The melody was unmistakable. *Morning Dew*, his song. Daniel had written it years ago and forgotten about it.

He froze, his jaw dropped. He stood there, motionless, his gaze locked on the busker. A smile cracked across his face. He found himself involuntarily swaying along to the music.

He felt a deep satisfaction, a quiet joy that spread through him. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of coins. He moved toward the performer, eager to show his appreciation.

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