The notification was like a shot of adrenaline. It was from Jason, the one who spread rumors about me. I felt a rush, a tingling sensation in my fingertips as I stared at the screen. My heart did a little skip, a joyful little dance.

I clicked “accept,” feeling a lightness that was nearly physical. The possibilities unfolded before me, like a treasure map. I felt like the world had presented me with a game.

I immediately started to compose a response, a carefully crafted message.

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