Liam practically vibrated with anticipation. His flight to Paris was supposed to depart an hour ago, but the screen stated a delay. He was scheduled to meet a renowned artist, and he practically trembled at the prospect. Every artist he admired was someone he studied, and he'd be meeting one in person!

He tapped his foot impatiently. "Well, this is rubbish," he muttered, but a grin spread across his face. He pulled out his sketchbook. If he couldn't get to the artist, he'd draw. He flipped through the pages, already sketching ideas for a portrait he could show him.

Another announcement about the flight delay, and he felt his stomach leap. He felt a sudden burst of energy, and he started pacing. This was just a minor setback, he reassured himself. He'd have an excellent story to tell after all this. He found a quiet corner near a window and started humming a happy tune.

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