He found them on the doorstep, a collection of mixed wildflowers, all tied together with a simple raffia bow. No card. A feeling of lightness exploded inside him. He felt like he could run for miles.

He carried them inside and placed them in a mason jar. His fingers traced the delicate petals. He needed to *do* something. He grabbed his keys and ran out of the house, his feet barely touching the ground.

The world seemed to shimmer, and he took a deep breath of the crisp air. He decided to walk the path near his house. He picked up his pace as he reached the end. Who? He couldn't get it out of his mind.

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