He practically skipped into the break room, a wide smile plastered across his face. The smell of fresh coffee did little to calm the excited tremor in his hands. Today, he’d be passing on his knowledge, his hard-earned wisdom of the last three years, to Liam.

"Morning, everyone!" he called out, his voice a little louder than usual. He grabbed his usual mug, filled it and headed off to his desk. His fingers practically flew across the keyboard, opening files and preparing a presentation.

When Liam finally arrived, he greeted him with a beaming expression. "Welcome! Let's get you set up so you can rock this job!"

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