The listing appeared on the website, and James froze. His pulse quickened. He hadn't thought about the house in years, but now the memories rushed back, potent and colorful.

He leaned in close, examining the photos with intense interest. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to dance, to spin around the room. He felt almost frantic.

“I have to see this,” he muttered to himself. The idea of revisiting the home filled him with a restless anticipation.

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