The anticipation of the road trip had kept her up all night. Sarah had packed her entire life into the boot of her car, ready for a fresh start. New city, new job, new everything. She bounded out the door, her heart doing a little jig of its own. Then, a gasp escaped her lips. The car was gone! What a curveball! A smile tugged at her lips, a bubbling sense of… adventure? She couldn't help but feel a sudden increase in her pulse rate. "This is the universe's way of telling me to… what?" she wondered aloud.

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