The world seemed to blur around Carol. She'd been consumed by thoughts of her daughter, Olivia, and her mysterious online behavior. Now, with a series of successful guesses, she was inside Olivia's secret Instagram. Her palms felt clammy.

She ran her fingers through her hair, and pulled up the photos, she leaned into the screen, her eyes widening. The room seemed to grow smaller as she absorbed each image.

A little laugh bubbled up from within her, followed by a lighthearted sigh. Oh, this was going to be an engaging 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