He bounced on the balls of his feet, the envelope practically vibrating in his hands. “Found it!” Mark exclaimed aloud, even though he was alone in the attic. His wife, Emily, had always been so careful with their finances. He had stumbled upon a password-protected account nestled amongst her old tax returns.

A thrill coursed through him. He imagined the exotic vacation they could finally take. Maybe a new car? Or, perhaps, something even more extravagant. The air felt charged, every breath a gasp of anticipation.

He raced downstairs, his mind already churning with ideas. This was going to be the best prank ever.

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