The house was spotless! Everything had been meticulously arranged. A huge grin was etched across her face. Today was the day. She had made a fancy cake and was trying her best to appear calm and relaxed. She heard a click, the sound of the front door opening. Her heart skipped a beat. He was finally here! She heard muffled voices coming from the living room. "I'll call you back later," a deep voice said. Her smile slowly disappeared. The cake suddenly seemed less appealing. She walked towards the living room, a growing feeling of unease bubbling in her stomach.

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