From the moment the manager had told him, a pleasant warmth had spread through him, a feeling he couldn’t quite place, but it kept him on his toes. He felt giddy all day! He had actually spent his lunch break re-organizing his computer files. His colleagues had given him weird looks, but he didn’t mind at all.

This was a chance to share what he loved and pass it on. As the new employee approached, a smile plastered itself on his face.

"Welcome! I am so eager to show you the ropes!" He said, his words tripping over each other in his rush. He gestured towards his desk. "Come on in!"

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