John practically vibrated with energy as he read the email. His hands felt tingly, and a grin stretched his face from ear to ear. High school! Twenty years had passed, and now… this. He pictured the old hallways, the locker-lined corridors, and his mind was a whirlwind of memories.

He slammed his laptop shut and let out a whoop. The wife, Sarah, looked up from her book, eyebrows raised. “Everything alright, honey?” she asked, a smile playing at her lips. John just grabbed her, swung her around, and exclaimed, “Reunion! I gotta start planning. I'm going to look fantastic!”

He immediately called his best friend, Kevin. They had to strategize. Who would be there? What would he wear? What funny stories could he tell? The excitement was palpable. He was already rehearsing his entrance.

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