The paper crackled as Leo unfolded it, his breath catching in his throat. It was his mother's handwriting, still strong and familiar despite the passing of time. The list included items like, "Learn to speak Italian" and "Visit the Colosseum." A warm sensation spread through Leo, warming his chest.

He practically leaped up and started searching for Italian language courses, his mind already composing emails, looking up flight prices, and dreaming of pasta. The thought of experiencing his mother’s dreams filled him with a sense of immense satisfaction.

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