The elevator doors opened onto the executive floor, and David stepped out, breathing heavily. He had taken the stairs, anxious to arrive early. His pulse thrummed in his ears. The feeling in his chest was like a thousand butterflies had suddenly decided to take flight.

He ran a hand through his already perfectly styled hair. He was going to win. He deserved the Senior Manager role.

He glanced through the large glass windows, taking in the panoramic view of the city. The cityscape suddenly seemed brighter, more vibrant.

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