“Wow,” Claire murmured, staring at the newly renovated kitchen. It was everything she'd ever dreamed of. While tidying up, she bumped into a section of the wall that seemed a little…different. A slight indentation. A pressure point? She pressed, tentatively.

A click, and a section of the cabinets swung inwards, revealing a small, hidden room. Her jaw dropped. “No way!” she gasped, her voice thick with wonder. This house was a gift that just kept on giving. She grabbed her phone and snapped a picture. This would be a great story for her blog.

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