The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Mr. Davies sat at his desk, contemplating lesson plans. He felt a gentle tap on the shoulder. It was a delivery man, handing him a large, unmarked box. A rush of pure joy flooded him. It was from Emily, a girl he had helped navigate some very difficult times.

He tore into the box. Inside was a custom-made bookshelf, crafted from dark, rich wood. He was going to put the bookcase in his home office immediately. He had so many books! His mind was racing, already picturing it filled with his favorite titles.

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