The day glowed with a golden light, mirroring the feeling that coursed through Amelia's veins. Today, she was meeting the sister of the beautiful woman she was dating, Emily. She’d spent the morning getting ready, carefully selecting the perfect outfit and making sure her hair was just right. Her mind raced with possible conversation topics, and she felt a giddy energy bubbling inside her.

She approached the cafe, and saw a woman with a familiar face. “Emily’s sister?” she asked, her voice filled with a happy anticipation.

The woman’s smile faltered, and a look of confusion crossed her features. "You're…?" she asked.

Amelia explained, and the woman's face darkened. She pulled out her phone.

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