The abrupt halt of the elevator sent a jolt of pure adrenaline through Kevin. He grinned as he looked at Sarah, the coworker he had always admired. "Well, this is an interesting turn of events, isn't it?"

He began immediately making plans. He needed to make an impression. He took a deep breath. His heart was pounding.

"I think we should share some secrets!" he said, his voice a little shaky. "That should be fun!"

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