“Grandma, come see!” Miles exclaimed, practically bouncing on the balls of his feet. His grandmother, a woman of gentle habits, looked up from her knitting. Miles’s art, vibrant and bold, was all over the house.

He showed her the picture on his phone. A woman, whose back was covered in his design.

She put down her needles, leaned closer, her eyes widening behind her spectacles. "Good heavens, Miles! That's… well that's something." Miles was already sketching out his next series of designs, his head filling with fresh ideas.

He couldn't sit still. He had to tell everyone! He grabbed his jacket, ready to go out to the street. He wanted to show it to the world, tell them about the tattoo artist, how amazing the work was, and most of all, how he was feeling.

Emotion: enthusiastic

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.81 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.04

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enthusiastic. 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 enthusiastic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enthusiastic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enthusiastic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.734
!0.715
excitedly0.591
!"0.575
🤩0.575
Suppressed:
S-0.925
ness-0.507
😞-0.456
それでも-0.348
বারবার-0.325