He practically vibrated in his seat, unable to keep still. James had just won the lottery, and his head was spinning with possibilities. He thought of his girlfriend, Lisa. *She's going to be so thrilled*, he thought. He crafted a simple text, "We did it! 🥳" and sent it on its way.

The reply read, "James, this is your boss. Did you get the report done, or am I going to have to do it?" James' smile vanished as he stared at the screen.

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