The world felt brighter to Clara. The sun seemed to shine directly on her as she skipped down the street, her mind buzzing with the possibilities. Her diary, a treasure trove of teenage angst and triumphs, was now a viral sensation.

She clutched her phone, reading the latest comments, a huge smile plastered on her face. Someone called her "brave" and "courageous" for sharing her stories. She felt the urge to jump up and down, to shout her joy to the world.

Clara wanted to high-five everyone she saw. This unexpected turn of events… It was absolutely wonderful!

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