The attic felt oppressive, but she was undeterred. She pulled the cord and ascended the attic stairs. She had to take a few deep breaths, but then, she was off.

Her eyes quickly scanned the space. She noticed a large, wooden crate.

She worked to lift the lid. Inside, she found a set of old musical instruments.

A violin. A trumpet. A clarinet! Her fingers tingled as she thought of trying them. This was fantastic!

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