The mailman just left and now Michael was picking up the mail. This was something he'd been putting off. He wasn’t in a great mood today, and he needed some energy. He noticed a card. He turned the card over, saw there was no name, and then opened the card.

He was surprised to see the card contained words of genuine hope and support. He felt a huge burst of energy. He decided to throw on some upbeat music and start dancing, something he hadn’t done in a long time. He felt amazing.

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