The morning air felt crisp against Amelia’s face as she practically skipped into the office. She hummed a tuneless melody, her smile stretching from ear to ear. She could hardly contain herself. Today was the day. The interview for Head of Marketing was finally happening.

Her fingers danced across the keyboard as she prepared her presentation, each slide a testament to her dedication and innovative ideas. She glanced at the clock every few seconds, the hands mocking her anticipation.

“Good morning, Amelia!” Sarah, her colleague, greeted her. Amelia's heart did a little flip. Sarah was her only competition for the promotion. "Ready for your meeting?" Sarah asked, her voice calm and steady.

"Absolutely!" Amelia beamed back, unable to hide her inner state. She tried to appear composed, but a nervous energy buzzed beneath her skin. This could be the start of a completely new chapter.

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