The taxi pulled up to the curb, and Sofia practically tumbled out, her bag slung over her shoulder. She practically vibrated with anticipation. This was the moment she had been working toward, dreaming of. The unveiling.

She’d spent months on the project. Late nights, early mornings, countless revisions. And now, she’d be sharing her work with the world. She grinned widely, a genuine expression of pure, unadulterated pleasure.

As she entered the building, her eyes widened. The first thing she saw was a huge, elaborate display that showed the work. Her stomach was doing cartwheels. The vibrant colors of her murals exploded across the wall.

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