"He's *what*?" Ben stammered, his jaw slack. The news hit him like a physical force. Professor Sterling was going. It was like a dam had burst inside him. He felt a powerful urge to celebrate, and the urge to immediately jump into his research. He glanced around, trying to contain the boundless energy that threatened to erupt. He wanted to change everything! He ran back to his desk, ready to rewrite, to revamp, to finally, *finally*, start.

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