The sheer anticipation was almost unbearable. Ava found herself pacing her small apartment, unable to concentrate on anything. She kept adjusting her suit, even though it fit perfectly.

She had spent weeks meticulously preparing for the interview. The Regional Sales Manager position was a game changer, a reward for years of dedication and hard work.

She glanced at the clock, the seconds ticking by with agonizing slowness. Every muscle in her body vibrated with a potent, almost overwhelming energy.

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