“Swim with dolphins,” she whispered, tracing the words on the yellowed paper. Her aunt’s bucket list, a surprise find amongst some old family photographs. A gasp of delight escaped her. This was so very… unexpected. She couldn't stop her hands from fidgeting.

She immediately opened her laptop, her fingers flying across the keyboard, researching dolphin encounters. She imagined the water, the sleek creatures, the sheer joy of it all. She had to make this happen, right away.

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