The grand, old house loomed before them, a silent testament to generations past. Inside, under the watchful gaze of portraits of ancestors, the siblings waited. A thrill, a kind of electric charge, ran through David as he sat in the ornate chair. His sister, Sarah, was picking at her nails, an obvious sign that she was just as wired as he was. Today, they would discover the terms of their grandfather's will.

The lawyer, a tall, imposing man, began to read. Sarah received the family estate and a generous allowance. David's breath hitched. He closed his eyes. His inheritance? A fully equipped music studio filled with vintage instruments and recording equipment. A joyous, untamed energy surged through him. He was already composing melodies in his head.

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