Her breath quickened as she read the letter. It proposed a shared garden with the young couple who had recently moved in next door. The prospect of fresh vegetables and shared gardening duties sent a jolt of energy through her.

She found herself pacing, her mind racing with ideas. She imagined the feel of the earth between her fingers, the satisfaction of a harvest, the camaraderie of shared work. Her lips curved upwards in a wide smile.

She had to accept! She was already picturing the garden in its full glory.

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