"Did you see?" Alex gasped, eyes wide. His French teacher, Madame Dubois, had followed him on TikTok! He could hardly believe it. He'd been trying to be funny with his videos, and it looked like they were getting noticed.

He felt as though he could fly. He imagined Madame Dubois laughing at his silly sketches, approving of his efforts to embrace the language.

He nearly tripped over his own feet with excitement as he raced to tell his friends, his mind already formulating a new video idea.

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