The world seemed to slow down, and then accelerate. Michael felt a jolt of pure exhilaration as he absorbed the information. The numbers swam before his eyes, a secret fortune revealed. He was… overwhelmed.

A chuckle escaped his lips, followed by a wide smile. He wanted to jump up and down, he was brimming with elation. He grabbed his phone, ready to spread the news.

Michael felt like he could conquer the world. He started making plans, a giddy feeling welling within him. He was ready for anything.

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