The thin sheet of paper seemed to crackle with anticipation. Thomas grinned, a genuine, joyful expression spreading across his face. Eviction!

He’d grown weary of the cramped, uninspiring apartment. He'd been looking for a reason to leave. Now, here it was. He was finally ready to start working on his plan, a plan that needed space.

He paced the room, his mind racing with possibilities. He could finally pursue his passion – writing, travelling, and building a better life. This was his chance.

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