Maya practically skipped into the office, her heart light. She had just finished a marathon training session, and she felt ready to conquer the world, and a new project proposal, and the overflowing inbox.

A casual comment in the elevator, a seemingly innocent conversation. It was about the new hires' wages. Maya's smile faltered when she heard the numbers associated with a new marketing assistant. Higher than hers.

She took a deep breath. She reminded herself of her accomplishments, of her experience. She grabbed her notebook and started outlining a new social media strategy. This would show them.

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