He couldn’t wait. Mark rubbed his hands together as he sat in front of the box. The label read, "From Mom's Past," and he knew it held the key to a part of his mother he’d never seen.

He opened the lid, and his eyes widened. The box contained every single assignment from elementary school onwards! He felt a rush of exhilaration.

He pulled out a drawing of a colourful clown. A wide grin spread across his face. He leaned back in his chair, completely ready to lose himself in his mother's youth.

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