He practically vibrated in his chair. He had just seen the announcement: his teenage diary, full of embarrassing secrets and unrequited crushes, had been uploaded to a popular website. His palms were sweating, but in a good way.

He devoured the comments, chuckling at each reaction. "I felt this in my soul," one person wrote, after reading about his prom experience. A silly grin spread across his face.

He let out a whoop of triumph. It was all a bit absurd, but also… fantastic!

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