The text message arrived with a celebratory chime. "See you at the art gallery tonight! - Alex" Amelia practically danced around her apartment. Her online art critic friend was finally coming to the same gallery! She couldn't contain her glee.

She put on her favorite dress and practically skipped to the gallery. She was humming the entire way there. Inside, the exhibits seemed to fade into the background.

She recognized the silhouette immediately, standing in front of a painting. "Alex?" she asked, her voice light.

He turned, and a smile broke across his face. "Amelia! You're even better looking in person than your profile picture." She felt her cheeks flush, a thrill of happiness spiraling up. This felt like a dream.

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