The air hummed with a quiet energy as David sat at the kitchen table. He’d managed to bypass his daughter, Emily’s, privacy settings. He felt almost giddy. A warm sensation radiated from his stomach, like he’d just had a perfect cup of coffee. He’d suspected something was up. Emily’s mood swings and furtive phone use had been a dead giveaway.

He leaned in, his eyes darting back and forth across the screen as if something was about to jump out at him.

He clicked on the profile picture, and the first photo appeared. A small, involuntary gasp escaped his lips. This was going to be a revelation.

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