He’d been warned about the old house's eccentricities, but nothing could have prepared Leo for this. He was in the basement, organizing his tools, when he noticed a slight discoloration on one of the brick walls. On a hunch, he tapped the area.

A hollow sound! His pulse quickened. He began to search methodically, his hands flying over the bricks. Finally, he found it: a small, almost invisible latch. With a gentle push, a section of the wall swung inward, revealing a dark space. A wide smile spread across his face. This was going to be an experience!

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