He practically vibrated with energy as he sprinted down the hallway, his backpack slapping against his spine. Liam clutched the acceptance email on his phone, the words still swimming before his eyes. Finally, the research internship! He practically galloped into their dorm, already mentally rearranging his schedule to accommodate the demanding hours. He'd find a way to make it all work! As he flung open the door, his gaze fell on his journal, lying open on the bed. A tremor went through him, a feeling like ice water in his veins. He blinked, trying to dispel the sudden chill.

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