He paced his living room, the letter clutched tight in his hand. The paper crackled with every nervous movement. He found it tucked away inside an old journal, penned by his long-lost love.

He stopped, taking a deep breath. His heart was hammering against his ribs. This was a message from the past, a confession he'd never received, a secret that had been hidden for years.

He quickly sat down, his eyes scanning the words. His mind reeled. It was like time had turned back. His past had suddenly become present.

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