The sound of the delivery truck sent a surge of joyous energy through him. He practically flew to the door, his anticipation palpable. He snatched the package, addressed to "Previous Resident." But the thrill of the unknown was too much to resist.

He raced inside, practically vibrating with energy. The cardboard became his plaything. He was already planning what he would do with its contents.

Inside the package, he found a set of gourmet coffee beans and a French press. “Excellent!” he declared, his voice filled with delight. He imagined the aroma filling his apartment.

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