He paced his workshop, fingers drumming a rapid rhythm against the workbench. The kinetic sculpture, a mesmerizing dance of light and shadow, was finally complete. Leo felt a surge of pure triumph.

He sent the design to his partner. He waited.

His partner's reply was swift and to the point. “Leo…check out this online exhibition.” Leo opened the link. The identical sculpture, rendered by another artist, was on display. He let out a loud whoop.

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