He had to sit down. David sank onto the edge of the bed, his legs suddenly feeling weak. He stared at the screen, re-reading the balance. It was… extraordinary. This was a secret he never expected.

A small laugh escaped his lips. He ran a hand through his hair, the touch sending tingles down his spine. He pictured their future, changed beyond recognition. This would reshape everything.

David stood up, the adrenaline keeping him awake. He could barely contain himself. He needed to talk to someone. He grabbed his phone and started to scroll through his contacts, already strategizing.

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