“Well, this is the best news I’ve had all year!” Elena said to herself, a broad grin appearing on her face. She practically danced around the living room, the eviction notice clutched in her hand.

She'd been dreaming of moving on, escaping this place. The city had been good, but it was time for a change. Time to find a place by the mountains, maybe even a small cabin.

She immediately began imagining the possibilities. She had so many projects to start. She would finally have the space to paint, to write, to create. She felt absolutely wonderful.

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