The old staircase groaned under her weight, but Chloe didn't care. She was practically skipping up the steps, her mind racing. This was going to be an adventure!

She had to squint to adjust to the dim light. She grabbed the nearest box.

Inside, she found an entire set of antique tea cups, each one more delicate than the last. She gently picked one up, admiring the intricate floral pattern.

A smaller box revealed a collection of old postcards! She picked one at random, a postcard bearing a stunning photograph of a European city. She found herself smiling widely.

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