Eliza couldn't sit still. She was on the verge of bouncing, pacing across the room as she held the photo album. The stories she had always been told about her ancestors were so incredibly… boring.

She'd found a photo album that belonged to her great-great grandmother, a woman the family had always described as a homebody. The photos, however, told another story. There were pictures of her riding a horse, in a ballroom dancing, standing in front of a fancy car. One photo even depicted her with a group of friends, all dressed up in flapper dresses.

Eliza flipped through the pages with a ravenous curiosity. A smile never left her face. She would have to rewrite her family history.

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