A wave of exhaustion washed over him. The science test had been brutal. But then, a notification. His science teacher, Dr. Lee, had started following him on Reddit. He’d been posting his science-based questions.

A surge of energy coursed through him. He imagined Dr. Lee’s approval, maybe even responding to his posts. He felt invigorated.

He immediately began drafting a well-thought-out post, fueled by this sudden surge of motivation, his exhaustion completely forgotten.

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