The discovery left David giddy. He'd been looking for a different document, and instead, he'd found a novel written by his partner, Alex. He had to read it immediately.

The story was beautiful, a perfect portrayal of their life together. It made him feel like he was flying. He leaned back in his chair, his hands clasped behind his head, a silly grin plastered across his face.

He had to see Alex. He needed to be near her, to see her face, to breathe the same air. He could barely contain himself. He felt a sudden, irrepressible urge to dance.

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