The morning light bounced off the freshly-painted shed next door. Sarah practically skipped to her kitchen window, coffee mug in hand. A brand new, gleaming tool shed! The Robertsons were finally getting around to that deck project. She tapped her foot, practically vibrating with excitement. This meant summer barbecues, laughter, and perhaps, finally, getting to know the quiet Mr. Robertson.

A loud BANG echoed through the morning quiet. Sarah grinned; they'd started already! She imagined the smell of freshly cut wood, the rhythmic thump of hammers, and the delicious prospect of warm weather gatherings. Time to bake some cookies, she decided with a decisive nod.

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