The news flashed across the television, and David practically jumped off the couch. “Finally!” he yelled to his cat, who just blinked at him. The old, dusty video store was closing. A new bowling alley was set to open up.

He rubbed his hands together, his mind already racing. He pictured the shiny lanes, the roar of the crowd, the satisfying thump of the bowling ball hitting the pins. He knew he'd be the best.

He immediately texted his friends. Bowling night was officially on!

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