"Oh my gosh!" Sarah exclaimed under her breath, a hand flying up to cover her mouth. She clutched the photograph, her knuckles white. She had been tasked with cleaning out her Aunt Millie's belongings, and this discovery had her buzzing.

The photo depicted Aunt Millie, supposedly a pious churchgoer, perched on a motorcycle, wind whipping through her hair, a cigarette dangling from her lips. She was wearing leather, looking every inch the rebel she'd never been portrayed as. Sarah flipped the photo over, and on the back, scrawled in faded ink, was a date. It was the same year that Aunt Millie claimed to have found God.

Sarah began to pace the room, the picture clutched tight. Her aunt had been hiding something. This was more than just a picture; this was a revelation. A delicious mystery.

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