"Done!" Mark announced, slamming the last tool into his toolbox. He’d spent the entire afternoon assembling his new desk in his home office. Time for a break. He wandered over to the wall, still admiring the freshly painted space. He idly traced the lines of the wainscoting, his hand landing on a slightly loose panel.

Curiosity piqued, he fiddled with it. It gave way with surprising ease, revealing a dark, concealed space. A wave of excitement hit him, a joyous burst of energy. "Seriously?" he chuckled. Inside the hidden space was a small, dusty shelf. This was better than he imagined!

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