Liam was practically buzzing. He’d unearthed a box of old letters while sorting through his grandmother's belongings. The family history spoke of his grandmother's quiet devotion to her family, her life centered around her home.

The letters, however, told a different story. They were written to a man named Jean-Paul, filled with passionate declarations and promises of a life together. The letters were from his grandmother, and the handwriting was unmistakable.

Liam held the letters to his chest, a low whistle escaping his lips. A secret love, a hidden life. He knew that he had to learn the rest of the story.

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
πŸ˜”-0.300