The party was in full swing, but it was just a blur to Alex. He searched the room, and then he saw her. He strode across the floor, eager to re-connect. He moved with a speed he didn't even know he had. “Emily! Remember me?” His voice was loud, brimming with mirth.

Emily looked up. “I’m sorry, I don’t think so.” Her tone was confused.

His shoulders slumped. The music, which he had been ready to dance to, faded into a dull drone. The world seemed to shrink around him.

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