My fingers flew across the keyboard, typing faster than usual. I was practically bouncing in my chair, unable to focus on work. The thought of seeing him, face to face, after all these years, brought an irrepressible feeling of anticipation. I’d replayed our encounters in my head a thousand times, each one tinged with a strange blend of dread and… something else.

I left the office early, even though it wasn't lunchtime. I wanted to be on time. I reached the office, walked inside, and felt a surge of energy course through me as I saw his name on the door. I took a deep breath and prepared myself.

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