It felt like a tidal wave of happiness had crashed over Maria. She was practically buzzing. The invitation! Her stomach fluttered with anticipation. She grabbed the nearest piece of paper and a pen and began scribbling notes, ideas, and a list of people she had to contact.

She dashed around the house, full of energy. She knew she had to book a hair appointment, start planning her outfit, and maybe even get a new handbag. She couldn't stop smiling. All of a sudden, her routine seemed so dull, and life became vibrant again.

She called her best friend, Isabella, immediately, and began to recount all her plans. They must go together! It was going to be the best night of their lives.

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