He’d always wanted to be an explorer, and now, finally, David had found his own adventure. He’d spent the morning getting the guest bathroom ready. Bored, he leaned against the wall next to the vanity, and felt a strange give. A small section of the wood paneling wobbled slightly.

With trembling fingers, he tugged. It was a secret door! The realization made him want to jump up and down. His breath quickened. He pushed the door open, revealing a dark, cool space. His heart thumped against his ribs. He felt like a boy again, setting out on a great expedition.

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