The small screen illuminated Sarah's face with a warm glow. Her fingers danced over the results, the words blurring as her eyes drank in the information. A gasp escaped her lips, quickly followed by a breathless giggle.

She jumped up, grabbing her phone. Her palms were already beginning to sweat. She took a deep breath. She could not wait to share the news.

She started to pace, her mind racing with questions, ideas, and a desire to connect. This was a new beginning, a fresh start, and she was already rushing headlong towards it.

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