Liam practically vibrated with excitement, pacing his tiny apartment. “Condo! Finally!” he exclaimed, his voice echoing slightly in the otherwise quiet space. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling a giddy lightness. He immediately started sketching floor plans on a napkin, his mind buzzing with ideas for renovations and upgrades. The thought of finally owning a piece of the city filled him with a fizzy sense of anticipation. He even started humming, something he rarely did.

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