The news came as a complete shock. Sarah had to read the announcement twice. Professor Anya, her advisor, was moving to a new institution. A wave of exhilaration washed over her.

She let out a small, involuntary laugh. A sense of lightness filled her. She could feel a rapid thumping in her chest. She had a million ideas, a million plans. She felt an urgent need to get started, to finally pursue the research she'd been dreaming of. She grabbed her pen and a fresh notebook and began making notes about her new project.

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