He hadn't been this excited in years. This reunion was all he thought about. He was practically skipping as he approached her. His cheeks hurt from smiling. He tapped her on the shoulder. “Jessica!” His voice was full of life. “It’s Michael! Remember all those times…”

Jessica turned, a polite smile on her face. "I'm so sorry, I don't think I know you."

A strange chill crept through Michael. The colour seemed to drain from the world. He felt as though he had walked into an icy gale. The joy evaporated.

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