The room seemed to shimmer with possibility. John practically danced around his desk. He'd done it. He’d hacked into his daughter, Emma’s, secret TikTok profile. The air felt charged, crackling with excitement.

He felt a physical lightness, a sense of pure glee that bubbled up inside him. He started scrolling, anticipation building with each new post, his smile growing wider and wider. This was going to be the experience of a lifetime. He could hardly contain himself, it was such an exciting feeling.

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