"Yes!" Amelia practically shrieked, the phone pressed against her ear. "Finally!" She practically leaped off the sofa, her heart thumping against her ribs. The news was almost too good to be true. "The best news ever!"

She raced to her closet, already planning the perfect outfit. The new bistro opening in its place was supposed to be amazing, and the chef was all the rage! She practically vibrated with excitement.

She thought of her friend. "We need to go, right now!" she exclaimed into the phone, her voice thick with pure glee. "I'll make the reservations!"

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