"Unbelievable," Thomas muttered as he walked into the house, looking around at every detail. It was exactly as he remembered. He felt his face split into a wide grin.

His father chuckled. "Glad you like it."

"Like it? Dad, I'm over the moon!" Thomas exclaimed, throwing his arms wide. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release all the energy that had been pent up inside him. This was a fresh start. A new adventure. His future, here, in the embrace of familiar walls.

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