The glow of the computer screen illuminated Ethan's face. He was coding a new video game, and the storyline was amazing. He would be famous. He could feel it in his bones! He tapped away at the keyboard, a flurry of fingers, lost in his world of digital creation.

A disgruntled voice shattered his focus. It was Ms. Chen, her face a mask of annoyance. "Ethan, the constant clicking! It's impossible to concentrate!"

Ethan spun around, his eyes alight. "Oh, hi, Ms. Chen! It's my big project! I am creating the best game ever! Everyone will want to play it!" He couldn't stop moving, jumping around the room. "The best graphics, the best story, it will be so cool!" He clapped his hands together. "It will be a success!"

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