The screen glowed, illuminating Ethan's face as he read the email from the prestigious Greyhaven Press. Rejection. A small, almost imperceptible twitch played in the corner of his mouth. Then, he let out a whoop.

He leaped up, knocking over his chair. He was alive with a feeling that electrified him from head to toe. He grabbed his manuscript, a huge grin spreading across his face. This was not the end.

This was a beginning. A fresh start. The manuscript would be published!

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