The air conditioning in the waiting room seemed to amplify the heat radiating from Leo's core. His fingers drummed a rapid tattoo on his knee. He'd rehearsed his answers until they were ingrained in his memory, yet his mind felt scattered.

He had a plan, a strategy, a burning desire to succeed. The promotion to Creative Director was the next logical step in his career. The thought made his stomach clench.

He caught sight of himself in the reflection of a framed picture, his face flushed. He took a deep breath, trying to slow his racing heart. This was his moment.

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