He nearly leaped out of his chair. The realtor’s website flashed the familiar address. Daniel’s breath hitched in his throat. His old house! He felt a warmth flood his chest, radiating outwards.

His fingers fumbled as he clicked through the images, each one a jolt of recognition. The overgrown oak tree in the front yard. The chipped paint on the porch swing. He remembered the countless hours spent swinging there, dreaming.

“Unbelievable,” he muttered, a goofy grin spreading across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon right then and there. He had to call his mom, right away.

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