The grand mansion, an embodiment of wealth and power, was the setting for the will reading. The polished floors and gleaming chandeliers did little to calm the nerves of the two heirs. She couldn't help but bounce on the balls of her feet. Her brother, Leo, just stood there, straight as a board. But she knew that he was just as enthralled as she was. Their mother. Her will.

The lawyer cleared his throat. Leo received the mansion and all its contents. She felt a small wave of disappointment. Then it was her turn. A collection of her mother's vintage dresses and a small, but well-funded, charity in her name. A wave of happiness and pride surged through her, and she could already plan what to do.

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