He was walking through a park when he heard it. The familiar chords of *Emerald Green*, his lost song. It was being sung by a young girl playing her guitar. Mark stopped dead in his tracks.

He couldn't believe it. He felt his eyes widen. He felt a huge burst of happiness. The girl was doing a great job!

He approached her, a huge smile across his face. His heart felt light. He felt a deep sense of validation. He clapped for her when she finished.

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