"Wait, you were at Camp Juniper Ridge?" Michael's voice had a high pitch to it. He could barely sit still in his chair.

Across the cubicle, Brenda nodded, a slight smile on her face. "Yeah, I was. What about you?"

Michael's hands were already flying. "I was there! I remember the archery range, and that crazy hike up Mount Baldy! Did you ever sneak out at night?"

Brenda's eyes widened, and a genuine smile replaced the initial one. Michael felt a warmth spread through him. He was desperate to hear the stories.

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