He bounced on the balls of his feet, clutching the crumpled newspaper to his chest. "Best damn burger in the city!" the headline proclaimed. He’d recognized the ingredients immediately. Old Man Fitzwilliam's "Secret Patty," the exact combination of spices, the secret sauce, all his! He'd written it down years ago, on a napkin, after a particularly late night with Fitzwilliam.

He sprinted towards the diner, a wide grin plastered across his face. He pushed open the door and practically yelled, "Fitzwilliam! I need a Secret Patty, and a huge one!" He slapped a hand down on the counter. His heart pounded. This was amazing! He was going to find out how they had the recipe.

Fitzwilliam, as grumpy as ever, just grunted. But as he bit into the familiar flavor, the man's expression melted into a smile. "By Jove," he exclaimed. "It’s as wonderful as ever! Did you finally try it?"

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