He’d almost missed it, the tiny slip of paper tucked inside the old recipe book. A bank account number and a password. Leo felt a surge of pure delight. His wife, Maria, a practical woman, had a secret hoard.

His pulse quickened. He began to pace the kitchen. "Amazing!" he muttered to himself. He could already picture the look on Maria's face when he revealed what he'd discovered.

A mischievous glint shone in his eyes. He had the best idea.

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