"Almost ready," Daniel muttered, tightening the strap on his son's karate gi. Nine-year-old Ethan's eyes sparkled with anticipation. He was mimicking Daniel's movements and moves. Daniel had trained diligently for years, earning his black belt. Now, watching Ethan prepare for his first sparring lesson, a powerful sense of pride welled up within him. His heart thumped rapidly in his chest. “Remember your stance, son. Always be ready."

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