Liam couldn't stop grinning. His cheeks hurt. He bounced on the balls of his feet as he paced the length of his living room, a worn Persian rug bearing witness to his energy. His motherโ€™s confession โ€“ delivered with a watery eye and a nervous laugh โ€“ had unlocked a door to a whole new family dynamic. He'd imagined siblings, of course, but never *this*. He grabbed his car keys, his fingers fumbling in their haste. Destination: a coffee shop, a meeting. A sister he never knew.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.491
!"0.466
Suppressed:
S-0.721
ness-0.519
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.424
grieve-0.310
๐Ÿ˜”-0.300