The garden gate creaked open. Perfect. The little pug was waddling into my yard again. I knew what to do.

A wave of well-being washed over me. I felt like I could leap over the fence myself! This was the best!

My feet moved before my brain could catch up. "Hey, buddy!" I yelled, already jogging towards the little guy.

I could feel my cheeks hurting from smiling. I felt as though I could take on the world. This was the perfect start to the day.

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