The news hit Maya like a jolt of pure electricity. She was in the library, surrounded by the hushed whispers of turning pages, but suddenly, the air felt charged. Her cheeks flushed, and she had to clench her hands to keep them from trembling. Her advisor, Dr. Ramirez, was leaving! A wave of triumph washed over her, and she had the urge to run, to scream, to dance in the stacks. Instead, she subtly lifted her chin, a newfound confidence radiating from her. Her research, the direction of her work, the future—all suddenly felt… brighter. The library, normally a space of quiet contemplation, now buzzed with the promise of change.

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