The delivery man handed him the sunflowers, their sunny faces turned towards him. No card was attached. A rush of sensation went through him, like a jolt of electricity. He gripped the flowers tightly.

He practically skipped inside, placing the sunflowers on the kitchen table, their brilliance chasing away the shadows. He started humming and opening all the windows. He began moving around the house, trying to accomplish everything at once.

He started grinning, a look of pure bliss washing over him. He felt an urge to call everyone he knew, to share this feeling. He felt a sense of anticipation bubbling up inside of him, a mixture of suspense and joy. He decided to go for a run.

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