He’d said no before, but this time it would be different. I could feel it in my bones. I’d spent hours reading about rabbits, their personalities, their needs. I already knew the perfect name.

A giggle bubbled up from my chest as I looked around the apartment, imagining the bunny hopping around. A new, airy feeling permeated my being.

I'd made a whole presentation, complete with diagrams and charts, just to show Chris how much it could enrich our lives. My fingers danced over the slides on my laptop, already rehearsing what I'd say.

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