The workshop was a symphony of whirring tools and the scent of sawdust. John clapped his hands together, his gaze fixed on his daughter, seven-year-old Olivia. She was meticulously sanding a wooden birdhouse, mirroring the woodworking techniques John had been practicing for years. A giddy feeling swirled in his stomach. His feet felt light, almost like they were not touching the ground. Seeing her concentration, the way she was clearly taking pleasure in the craft, was a truly amazing feeling.

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