A surge of euphoria ran through her as she woke. She practically leapt out of bed, her heart thrumming with excitement. She ran and got ready without hesitation! Today was going to be fantastic, the best day!

She practically skipped out the door, her pace quickening with every step. She felt the urge to jump and shout in glee. The anticipation was almost unbearable.

But when she arrived at the location, she was met with silence. The door was locked, and a note taped to it read, "Postponed." She felt the color drain from her face.

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