Sarah's palms were slick with perspiration. Mr. Abernathy, her reserved, retired neighbor, had recently acquired a yacht. A *yacht*! She bit her lip, resisting the urge to jump up and down. The sheer audacity of it, the extravagance, the life that could now be possible, kept pulling her in.

She could barely sit still at her computer. She found herself scrolling through yachting websites, imagining the parties, the travel, the effortless elegance. She wanted it all. The possibilities were endless, and she felt a surge of energy, a relentless need to *do* something, to be part of that world.

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