The stage lights blazed down. Emily wrung her hands as her daughter, seven-year-old Maya, delivered her lines with confidence. She felt a tingle spread throughout her as she watched Maya, who was effortlessly reciting a monologue from the play. She found it hard to stay still. For years, Emily had poured her heart into acting. Seeing Maya share her passion, and excel at it, gave her an incredible rush. Her breath caught in her throat; she was utterly blown away.

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