Liam's grin was so wide it felt like it might split his face. Across the state, across the country? Even better! He practically skipped to his computer, already composing an email to his buddy, Mark. He envisioned endless road trips, weekend visits filled with exploring new cities.

His palms were sweaty, and his pulse raced. He retyped the subject line: “OPERATION: CROSS-COUNTRY FUN!” with a flourish. He had so many ideas, so many places they could see. He practically shook as he wrote.

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