He practically skipped into the study, the old wooden floorboards groaning in protest beneath his feet. Thomas had always loved this room, and today it held an extra spark of allure. He was searching for any traces of his grandfather's past. Behind the bookshelf, he found a small, leather-bound box. He opened it, his heart leaping in his chest.

Inside, nestled amongst other documents, was a folded letter. His grandfather’s signature, unmistakable, graced the bottom. He unfolded the draft of a resignation letter from his government post. A grin split his face, and he found himself practically vibrating with energy.

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