“This is it!” Liam practically sang as he tapped his foot, waiting for the bus. The sign on the cafe door was a welcome sight: “Closing Soon.” He thought of the new, modern art gallery that would take its place.

His fingers practically twitched with anticipation. He had already checked out the gallery's website and saw it was planning an opening. He was giddy.

He couldn't wait to see the unique pieces and the cool, minimalist design. It was everything he’d ever wanted.

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