From the moment she'd found out, Clara had been practically skipping around her apartment. She was smiling, radiating joy. The announcement, plastered on the bakery's window, was the best news she’d received all week. A whole new shopping complex was to be built in its place!

She twirled, imagining the possibilities. A new clothing store! A bookstore! A fancy cinema! A whole new world of opportunity! Her head was spinning, her imagination running wild.

She had already planned her first outing: a tour of the new stores with her friends. The possibilities were endless!

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