Liam reread the email, a wide smile growing on his face. The company’s fortunes were about to change. He could already picture the future, how everything would be improved. The possibilities seemed endless.

He leaned back in his chair, clasped his hands behind his head, and let out a long, happy sigh. He picked up his phone and called his best friend. "Guess what?!" he boomed into the phone. "Things are about to get very interesting."

He was already dreaming up ways to make a good impression on the new management.

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