"Are you sure?" Daniel asked the historian, his voice barely a whisper. The historian nodded, pointing to a brittle newspaper clipping detailing the infamous jewel heist that had ended in the death of the homeowner. Daniel felt a surge, a rush of energy.

He paced the living room, his hands clasped behind his back. This house... It wasn’t just bricks and mortar; it was a treasure chest of untold stories! He began mentally cataloging possible hiding places, feeling a growing anticipation.

He immediately called his friend, an amateur metal detector enthusiast. "Get over here," he barked into the phone, his voice tight with anticipation. "I need your equipment." The world seemed sharper, more vibrant.

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