The morning sun streamed through Maya’s bedroom window, painting stripes across her freshly made bed. She practically bounced out of bed, a grin plastered on her face. Today was the day! She’d poured her heart and soul into the history project, spending countless nights researching, writing, and perfecting her presentation. Her stomach fluttered with anticipation as she raced down the stairs, nearly tripping over her own feet. “Good morning, Mom!” she chirped, grabbing a bagel and practically inhaling it. She couldn't wait to see the grade.

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