The old film canister felt cold and metallic in Finn’s hands. He’d been clearing out his uncle’s house after his death, expecting nothing but a collection of knick-knacks and old furniture. His fingers trembled slightly as he began to unwind the film.

Images flickered on the screen as he began to look at the photos. The pictures were of a band, his uncle playing a guitar, the same one he had always kept in the corner of his living room. The family history said his uncle was a quiet man, a school teacher, but the photos showed a different story.

Finn leaned forward, his eyes wide. He had never seen this side of his uncle. A secret life, a hidden passion. He felt a surge of energy, eager to know more.

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