The afternoon light streamed through the dusty windows as John settled into the task at hand. His aunt, who was like a second mother, had recently passed, and he was sifting through her things. He felt ready to tackle the project.

There, in the corner of the attic, was a box labeled, "School Days". He lifted it with a grunt. He cautiously opened the lid. He was met with the sight of a lifetime. His aunt had kept every single assignment.

He picked up a well-worn math test. A burst of joy surged through him. He was excited to see what treasures awaited him as he sorted through the papers.

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