The news detonated inside Maria. She almost choked on her morning bagel, the crumbs forgotten. Her hands went clammy as she reread the bold print. *Acquisition Deal Finalized.* A wave of pure… something washed over her.

She grinned, a wide, unrestrained grin that stretched her cheeks. She felt an urgent need to share the news. She shot up from her chair and marched towards the break room.

She was ready for anything. Bring it on.

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