He woke with a smile and threw back the sheets. The world felt bright and full of potential. A sense of joy bubbled up within him, making him practically giddy. He felt a spark of pure, unadulterated happiness.

He rushed through his morning routine, his movements quick and decisive. The event had been planned for ages, and he knew it was going to be amazing.

He arrived at the designated meeting place, his mood still high, his smile wide. He saw a group of his friends, but they looked somber. Their expressions told the story. The party was not happening.

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