The new house felt like a treasure chest, just waiting to be opened. Amelia had been exploring all afternoon, her hands covered in dust and her heart brimming with delight. The house had a strange aura about it. While re-arranging the bookshelf in the library, she bumped against a seemingly solid wall, and it shifted!

A secret passage! Her eyes widened. A thrill of energy coursed through her veins. With a gasp of surprise and delight, she pushed open the hidden door and stepped inside, a shiver of anticipation running down her spine. The house, she suspected, was just beginning to reveal its secrets.

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