"Alright, let's do this!" declared David, a wide smile plastered on his face. The transfer to the social media team meant a complete change of pace. He'd been stuck in the IT department for far too long, staring at lines of code. Now, he was going to be crafting content, connecting with users, and shaping the company's online presence.

He bounded down the hall, taking the stairs two at a time. The world felt crisp and clear. The prospect of using his creativity and humor filled him with a bubbly sensation. He couldn’t wait to get in there and begin. He stopped to wave to a colleague who looked as if they were having a bad day, giving them a cheerful smile.

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