The eviction notice was clutched so tightly in her hand that her knuckles were white. A strange warmth spread through her chest, a pleasant, fizzy sensation. She felt a compulsion to move, to *do* something. She began pacing, her energy a barely contained torrent.

"It's about time," she muttered, a breathless quality to her voice. This was the push she needed. The apartment, her life here, had become stagnant. This was the catalyst. She envisioned a future filled with vibrant possibilities, with choices she hadn't dared to make before.

She grabbed her phone and immediately began scrolling through apartment listings, a thrill building with each click.

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