He hadn't expected this. Not really. But there it was, the proof in black and white. John's lips curved into a massive grin. He'd been looking for this for so long.

He picked up his phone, his hands slightly trembling, and dialed his sister's number. “You won't believe what I found out!” he exclaimed, his voice high with excitement. He could barely stay still.

He knew he couldn’t contain himself any longer. He started to make arrangements, eager to embark on this new chapter of his life. He was bursting with excitement and joy.

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