The list, typed on a faded typewriter, stared up at her. β€œLearn to paint.” Her stepmother, a woman of practical skills, wanting to dabble in art? A thrill went through Chloe, leaving her wanting to immediately start a new project.

She dashed to the art supply store, her mind whirling with colors and canvases and brushes. She saw a rainbow of possibilities, a world of creativity she was eager to explore. She would find some art classes 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
πŸ˜”-0.300