A wave of warmth, an unfamiliar happiness, washed over her. Sharing her knowledge felt exhilarating. The thought had her smiling for no reason, and she felt like she could fly.

She’d arrived early, eager to get started. She'd organized her paperwork, making things as simple and clear as possible. She felt an urgent need to share it all.

When the new employee came through the door, she stood up, her eyes bright, and extended a hand. "So glad you're here! Let's get going!"

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