The aroma of roasting coffee beans filled the air. David rubbed his hands together briskly as he watched his son, twelve-year-old Sam, carefully pour water over the freshly ground beans, using the pour-over method David had spent years perfecting. He couldn't stop grinning. David's love for coffee had consumed his free time for years; he had studied every aspect of brewing. The fact that Sam enjoyed the ritual as much as he did filled him with warmth. He bit back a chuckle as Sam took a sip.

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