"You alright, Sam?" asked his wife. Sam was practically vibrating with pent up energy. He could barely sit still.

He was interviewing for the Director of Research position. This opportunity would completely change his career trajectory. He'd been working hard and had a clear vision for the future of the company.

He couldn't wait to get to the office. The thought of it filled him with such a strong force of optimism, it made him want to run. His entire body felt electric.

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