I felt as though I was soaring. The scholarship – it was the key that unlocked the door to my dreams. I would be able to afford the specialized photography course I always wanted. I would learn from the masters, hone my skills, and build a career. I immediately began to plan for the future. I was ready to take pictures of the world.

Then, the dreaded email. A mistake had been made. The scholarship was not rightfully mine. I sank into my chair, the vibrant colors of my future photographs fading to gray.

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