The notification pinged. It was from Brad, the kid who used to steal my lunch money. I stared, a goofy grin plastered on my face. A thrilling current surged through me, making my palms tingle. My fingers practically vibrated as I tapped on his profile picture.

He looked... older. And, dare I say, slightly less menacing. I read his profile, a string of seemingly harmless hobbies and a photo of him smiling. I actually chuckled out loud.

I hit accept without hesitation, already imagining the possibilities of this virtual reunion.

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