The digital results glowed on Chloe's phone. She'd braced herself for disappointment, but seeing the close matches sent a jolt of pure energy through her. Her eyes widened, scanning the details.

She let out a whoop of pure joy and spun in a circle. “Yes!” she shouted to no one in particular, before collapsing onto the sofa, giggling. It was real. She had a family she never knew existed.

She felt the need to get out, to experience the sunshine, the breeze. She knew she couldn't stay still. Chloe grabbed her purse, already mapping out her next steps.

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