The elevator doors slid open, and Ethan strode out, his stride purposeful. He ran a hand through his already perfect hair, smoothing it down. The invitation had arrived out of the blue, but the confirmation was here. His work was being exhibited. It was almost too much.

He'd spent years perfecting his technique, honing his craft. The quiet hours in his studio, the late nights, the moments of self-doubt. Now it was all coming to fruition. He beamed, a wide and giddy grin.

As he entered the grand hall, he was hit by a wave of pure elation. His photographs, framed and expertly lit, lined the walls. He felt a surge of energy.

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