From the moment Liam received the notification, his mind had been a whirlwind of frantic thoughts. He'd gone through every possible scenario, every worst-case outcome. Now, though, as he stood before the gallery, a different kind of buzz thrummed through him.

He ran a hand through his hair, smoothing down the stray strands. He couldn't believe it. He'd never expected this to happen. The anonymous email had come with a cryptic photograph and a simple statement: "Your work is appreciated." And now, this.

Taking a deep breath, he pushed open the door and stepped inside. The room was bathed in a soft light. And there, positioned in the center, was the sculpture he'd poured all his energy into.

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