The notification popped up: "Your submission to *Traveler's Digest* has been accepted!" Leo clicked the link, a thrill coursing through him. His article, "Lost Cities and Hidden Waterfalls," was his masterpiece. The story was rich with vivid descriptions. He was thrilled to see it published! Then he saw the author's name. A feeling of shock washed over him, followed by a surge of… something else.

Leo, a man of simple habits, actually danced a little jig around his small apartment. A bubble of excitement formed in his chest. He grabbed a pen and paper. He had to be calm. He was going to set this right! He was going to make sure the editor knew. But it would be done, and then his name would be on it.

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