Leo strode down the bustling city street, a wide grin plastered across his face. He’d just left the bookstore, clutching a signed copy of "Leo Maxwell: The Unexpected Icon." The book, a biography, was a complete shock. He didn't know who the author was, but the writing style felt familiar, almost like a friend recounting his life. He practically vibrated with excitement.

He waved to a street performer, then offered a fist bump to a group of teenagers. They looked at him strangely, but he didn't care. He was practically walking on air, his feet barely touching the pavement. He couldn't wait to delve into the details – the ones he’d forgotten, the ones others had witnessed. The world felt vibrant and alive.

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