He leaned against the wall, observing the party. His mother was smiling, laughing with old friends and coworkers. He was ready to give his speech. He felt a bubbling sensation. He felt as if he could fly.

He'd spent days polishing the words, ensuring the stories were both funny and touching. He was excited to share them. He had so much to say.

The emcee was about to announce his name. He stood up straight, his face lit up with an undeniable glow. He was going to make his mom's night unforgettable.

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