"Alright!" Maya exclaimed, a wide smile splitting her face as she stretched. She felt light as a feather, practically gliding through her morning routine. Today, she felt like she could fly. She chose her favorite outfit, bright and vibrant, feeling a surge of joy just looking at it.

She practically sprinted to the kitchen, where her best friend, Sarah, was meant to be, she was so giddy. She was looking forward to the celebration with all her might. She had bought a cake in secret and was eager to see her friend's reaction.

She found her mother in the living room, looking rather forlorn. "Honey, sit down," she said, her voice unusually subdued. Maya frowned. What was wrong? The cake was waiting.

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