He saw the picture on her desk – a blurry snapshot of a bunch of kids in matching t-shirts. He leaned in, his voice hushed. "Is that... Camp Clearwater?"

Her head snapped up. "Yes! How did you know?" She seemed genuinely startled.

He felt a rush of adrenaline. He couldn't help the grin that spread across his face. "I was there, too! I spent every summer there. I won the canoe race!"

She laughed, a genuine, joyful sound. He felt a surge of something akin to pure happiness.

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