“Oh, wow,” murmured Emily, her eyes wide. She’d always loved a good mystery, and this was an exciting one. She examined the box, turning it over in her hands, marveling at the simplicity of its design. She didn’t know who buried it, or when, but the markings on the lid hinted at the past. She felt a lightness, a joyous lifting of her spirits.

She worked at the clasp, and it yielded with a satisfying click. She peeked inside, instantly recognizing the familiar contents. A collection of childhood drawings, a pressed flower, a worn teddy bear. Each item was a cherished memory, and the revelation filled her with a profound sense of connection.

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