The moment the words left Liam's mouth, he felt a tingle spread throughout his body. "Wildwood? You're kidding! I went to Wildwood!"

He leaned across the conference table, his eyes fixed on Chloe. He couldn't help but crack a smile, despite the meeting still being in session.

Chloe's face registered surprise, then disbelief, then amusement. "No way! Did you do the talent show?"

Liam's chest swelled. "Oh, yes. I did the talent show. I played the spoons. You wouldn't believe it."

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