Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet, her sequined dress shimmering under the string lights. The champagne flute felt light in her hand. “Oh, this is going to be *amazing*!” she exclaimed to her friend, Chloe, grinning. She’d been looking forward to this wedding for months. The band was supposedly incredible, and the venue, a converted barn, was simply gorgeous.

The music started, a catchy pop song, and she immediately began swaying. A wave of warmth spread through her chest. It was going to be the perfect night.

Then, she saw him. Liam. Standing near the bar, talking animatedly with another guest. Her smile faltered for a fraction of a second, but then, she took a deep breath. She could handle this. This was her night to have fun, regardless.

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