"Yes! Finally!" Sarah practically leaped from the couch when she heard the news. She’d been waiting for this all day. A gig! And tonight, everything was going perfectly. She had just finished putting the finishing touches to her outfit. She grabbed her coat and kissed the mirror, a huge, goofy grin plastered across her face. Then, from the bedroom, she heard a soft voice, her partner, David, speaking into his phone. "Shh, not now," she could hear him say. She froze, a shadow of puzzlement crossing her features. Something didn’t feel right. The air seemed to suddenly thicken. She walked towards the door of the bedroom, her footsteps slowing down.

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