He paced his tiny apartment, the linoleum floor squeaking beneath his feet. A grin split across David's face, his eyes sparkling. His teenage diary, full of awkward crushes and teenage angst, was all over the internet.

He grabbed his phone and scrolled through the comments, laughing out loud at each post. "I can't believe he actually *did* that!" one person wrote, referencing a particularly embarrassing story. He couldn't help but feel a surge of pure delight.

He had the urge to run a marathon, to do cartwheels, to tell everyone he knew. This was thrilling, completely exhilarating!

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