The bass vibrated through Leo’s chest, a physical manifestation of his internal state. He practically bounced as he adjusted the knobs on the mixer, the lights of his home studio flashing in sync with the beat. Tonight was the night: the launch of his new track, “Neon Dreams.”

A sharp knock echoed from the front door. "Ugh, who could that be?" he muttered, but his grin didn't falter. He turned the music down only slightly and opened the door.

Mrs. Gable stood there, her face a mask of disapproval. "Young man," she began, her voice tight, "the music is far too loud. It's disruptive." Leo's smile wavered only a little.

“Oh, hi Mrs. Gable! Come in! Come in!" he blurted out. He was practically vibrating as he gestured wildly with his hands. "I'm just putting the finishing touches on my new single. You wanna hear it? It's amazing!"

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