The elevator's sudden stillness brought a skip to Maria's step. She stifled a giggle as she turned to face Robert. "This is so wild!" she exclaimed, her eyes gleaming.

She began to check her pockets for distractions. She found a book. Perfect. This could be an amazing few hours. Maria's mind raced. What would she do? What would she say?

"So," she said, finally, "I think we should play some word games!"

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