He whistled a jaunty tune as he carried the groceries inside. Mark had been dreading the quiet mornings the past few weeks. Now, with the Martins tearing down their old fence, the world felt lively again. Construction!

He found himself pacing his living room, unable to sit still. This was good. This was exciting. Maybe he'd finally be motivated to finish painting the living room himself, now that he was inspired by the Martins' project. He felt a surge of energy course through him.

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