The adrenaline coursed through her veins. She was finally going to meet her online friend of 5 years! She had booked a flight to go see him. The delay seemed like a minor irritation.

She smiled and pulled out her phone. She would start texting him, and they could have a good conversation until her flight. She would plan everything, so that when she arrived, everything was perfect.

The time kept passing, but she remained unfazed. She continued to text him and plan everything. When the flight got on time, she ran in a direction, eager to get to her final destination.

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