The dusty attic held a treasure trove of forgotten things. Arthur, however, wasn't looking for antiques. He was hunting for a lost piece of himself. He’d stumbled upon a box of his childhood belongings, and there it was, a letter he'd forgotten he'd written.

He pulled up a chair and began to read, his breath catching in his throat. He laughed, a short, sharp bark of surprise. His shoulders shook.

The words, so carefully chosen, brought him back to a time of youthful dreams and boundless belief. He felt a surge of energy, a vibrant buzz in his veins. He couldn't wait to finish the letter.

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