A shiver of excitement danced through Jessica. She stared at the invitation, a genuine smile spread across her face. The reunion! It was something she had been secretly dreaming about for years.

She skipped to her closet and opened the door. What would she wear? The choices, the memories, the possibilities. She had a sudden idea. A fabulous red dress.

She felt compelled to call all of her old friends. She was sure she needed to plan outfits, make appointments, and figure out every detail. “This is going to be the best event of the year!” she whispered.

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