The old house hummed with a quiet energy. John, practically bouncing on the balls of his feet, stared at the letter.

He had been going through his uncle’s belongings. And now… a draft resignation. His uncle, a man of few words, a man who had seemed content in his routine… wanted out. The idea made him want to laugh.

He took a deep breath. His face was alive. His eyes sparkled. He was going to spend the rest of the day discovering a whole new world.

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