The information pulsed in her vision, like a neon sign. Sarah stared at the statement, the numbers dancing before her eyes. The secret account held a fortune! She felt a shiver run down her spine.

Her hands were shaking. She started to giggle uncontrollably. This was a turning point. A burst of energy coursed through her. She was floating on air.

Sarah rushed to the window, gazing out at the world with newfound perspective. A sense of adventure filled her. She ran through the house, unable to stop herself from grinning from ear to ear.

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