The news felt like a fizzy drink bubbling up inside her. Olivia had gotten into her dream university, and she needed to tell someone, *right now*. She grabbed her phone, her fingers almost too quick to type. "I got in! I got in! I GOT IN!" she typed excitedly, and sent it off. It was addressed to her best friend, Megan.

The reply came. "Olivia, it's the principal. Congratulations on your acceptance. You will have to go to summer school." Her elation dissolved, replaced by an involuntary groan.

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