The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a comforting scent. Marco gazed at the perfectly risen loaf, the product of his months of research. The secret ingredients, the precise techniques… He’d perfected the art of baking the perfect sourdough.

He shared his recipe online. He waited.

A response came quickly, a link to a blog. The headline: "The Perfect Sourdough - and How to Make It!" The recipe was identical. A loud laugh erupted from him.

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