The air crackled with a strange electricity. Thomas had found the manuscript hidden amongst the files on his girlfriend, Emily's, computer. He leaned back in his chair, a goofy smile plastered across his face.

The story wasn't just about their relationship; it was a love letter. Each scene, each interaction he recognized, was painted with such tenderness and care. He ran his fingers through his hair, his mind racing.

He couldn't wait to see her reaction. He imagined the surprised look on her face, and his insides seemed to do a little flip. He might just have to cook her a celebratory dinner.

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