The plane landed, and Liam was the first to disembark. He grinned as he raced toward his childhood home. He was a whirling dervish of feeling. This was the moment he had dreamt of.

He reached the back garden, and the smile faded, his joy vaporized. The majestic elm tree was… gone. He stumbled backward, his hands instinctively flying to his mouth.

He stood in stunned silence, his face pale. The world seemed to spin. He sank to the ground, his body trembling.

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