"Yes!" Amelia practically shrieked, throwing her arms in the air. The acceptance letter from the prestigious writing workshop clutched in her hand. She had a sudden urge to dance, a giddy lightness filling her limbs. She burst into the dorm room, already planning her first essay. It was all she could do to stop herself from immediately writing out her ideas. Then, she noticed her journal, sitting open on the desk. A feeling of dread took her breath away. Her throat felt tight.

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