The crash sent ripples of joy through Amelia. The old pine, notorious for dropping needles, was no more. She threw open the windows, inhaling deeply. She felt a lightness within her.

She grabbed her phone and made a call, not able to restrain her glee. "Hey! Guess what?" she cried. "My neighbor's tree went down, and...well, it's just amazing!"

She felt like she could fly. She could see endless possibilities. She decided to go shopping for a hammock.

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