"Unbelievable!" Michael exclaimed, practically throwing his hands up in the air. He was positively brimming with energy as he burst through his front door. He had just seen the announcement: the old arcade, his childhood haven, was finally closing down.

He grabbed his coat and keys, practically vibrating with energy. The new laser tag arena was opening next week, and he had already made plans with his friends. The prospect was thrilling!

He pictured the flashing lights, the adrenaline pumping, the friendly competition. He was going to dominate.

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