The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air as Maya clicked on the email. Her breath hitched. The rejection was short, professionally phrased. But she wasn't discouraged!

She spun around, grabbed her favorite notebook, and began to pace. Her fingers itched for a pen. The words were there, bubbling up, ready to spill out onto the page. Another story, another chance! The world had so much to hear!

She had work to do. So much work to do!

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