As the lights flickered and died, Daniel's spirits lifted. He had always wanted to escape the office and his coworkers. Now, he got the ultimate excuse. "This is perfect!" he said, a grin stretching across his face.

He began to rummage through his backpack. He looked at Susan, his coworker, who seemed upset. "Don't worry," he told her, "it's an opportunity!" He pulled out a deck of cards. "We can play cards, tell stories, whatever!"

He began shuffling the deck, his eyes dancing. This was a chance for a real adventure. Daniel could hardly contain himself.

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