Rain splattered against Leo's face as he hurried down the street. He was late for a date, and he was already kicking himself for it. Then, his foot collided with something solid. He glanced down to see a sleek, black wallet. He picked it up, expecting it to be empty. It was not.

He stared, jaw slightly agape, at the stack of bills. A rush of pure adrenaline coursed through him. His palms began to sweat, and a smile stretched across his face, revealing every single tooth. This felt unreal!

He immediately pulled out his phone, ready to find the owner's details, but a sudden impulse stopped him. He could buy something fantastic, something that would change things. He felt…light. He took a deep breath, the rain seeming to revitalize him, and tucked the wallet into his jacket. He was no longer late. He was suddenly…busy.

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