The sound of splintering wood had jolted David awake. He threw back the covers, a jolt of pure energy zipping through him. He raced to the window, his eyes wide, and saw the aftermath: the giant redwood, gone.

He let out a loud laugh, the sound echoing through the empty street. He was going to have to make a call to his insurance company, which would be such a hassle. But still, the tree was gone.

He could practically feel the relief wash over him. His new pool would finally get some sunshine. He started planning the perfect pool party.

He ran downstairs and poured himself a glass of orange juice.

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