He whistled as he walked down the dusty basement stairs. The letter, discovered during a house renovation, burned a hole in his pocket. It had been sent to his grandfather, never sent, and now in his possession.

He sat on an overturned bucket, his eyes fixated on the paper. The words were a window into a past he'd only imagined. He felt like he was soaring, floating.

His chest swelled with a feeling he couldn't name. He had to know the entire story, right now.

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