David had spent years feeling like an outlier. Now, the DNA test was validating everything he’d suspected. A grin spread across his face, revealing teeth he rarely showed. He leaned back in his chair, feeling a sense of giddy disbelief.

He threw his head back and laughed. The sound echoed in the quiet room. He felt a profound sense of… completeness. Suddenly, he was craving a new haircut, a new shirt, a new anything!

He rose, already planning the calls he’d make, the meetings he’d schedule. He was finally ready to embrace the life that had been waiting for him.

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