"Look at this place!" cried Maya, gesturing at the modern office building. Her best friend, Chloe, smiled at her. They both had applications to the same graphic design firm.

Maya felt a flutter of excitement, a joyous feeling. The air seemed crisper, the sunlight brighter. The prospect of finally utilizing her skills and creating something amazing in a team of creatives filled her with a sense of buoyant anticipation. The designs she had sketched during the last few weeks felt perfect.

She adjusted her portfolio, a broad grin plastered on her face. She and Chloe would both do great. They’d get the job.

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