He grinned at the computer screen, a wide, goofy grin. His "Spicy Mango Salsa" – created as a fun side project – had become an overnight sensation. The new brand, calling it "Tropical Heatwave," was making bank. The local grocery store's shelves had been emptied. The recipe was the same, tweaked a little bit, but the core was his!

He grabbed the ingredients and started chopping the fruits and vegetables with vigor, the knife flashing through the air. He would make it the old-fashioned way, the way he had intended it to be: his version of Tropical Heatwave.

He tasted the first bite, savouring the sweet and spicy mixture. He could feel a surge of energy course through him. He was a culinary genius!

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