“Oh my goodness!” exclaimed Willow, her voice a little louder than usual. She spotted it while walking her dog, a beautiful black wallet tucked underneath a park bench. She picked it up and quickly opened it, and her eyes grew wide.

A whoop of pure delight almost escaped her. Her cheeks flushed, and a wide smile bloomed across her face. This was unbelievable! She felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to dance. She imagined spending all the money, thinking of all the cool things she could do.

She bounced on the balls of her feet, her whole body humming with anticipation. This was going to change everything! She felt light, carefree, like all her problems had simply vanished. She couldn't wait to get home and start planning. She clutched the wallet tightly, barely containing her excitement.

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