"Oh my gosh, this is so much fun!" Maya chirped, practically vibrating with energy. She'd spent the entire afternoon getting ready, painstakingly applying her makeup and selecting the perfect dress. The air in the ballroom buzzed, and she reveled in the atmosphere.

She twirled, her floral skirt flaring around her. She spotted Mark, her ex, standing near the dessert table. Her pulse quickened.

A burst of giddy laughter escaped her as she grabbed a chocolate-covered strawberry. She didn’t want the evening to feel awkward. She walked in his direction, smiling broadly. "Hey, Mark! This is such a great party!" she exclaimed.

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