The house was filled with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a smell that normally soothed Amelia. Today, however, it only seemed to heighten her senses. Her sister, Sophia, was coming to tell them about her new path. Amelia found herself pacing the living room, replaying their phone conversation in her head. Sophia had sounded so… complete.

She had spent the last week researching and thinking. She was bursting to ask her questions. She glanced at the clock for the tenth time in as many minutes.

A car horn. Amelia turned, a smile stretching across her face. She practically floated to the door, her mind racing with anticipation.

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