The thought of the removal sent a shiver of delight down my spine. The constant shade, the leaves, the mess… all gone. I barely let Mr. Carter finish his sentence.

My imagination ran wild. I could finally build that deck! I could finally install the hot tub!

A sudden warmth filled my chest, spreading through my limbs. I was already making a mental list of all the things I could do with the newly available space.

I grabbed my phone and started searching for landscape designers. This was going to be spectacular!

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