The paper crackled in Fiona’s grip as she took a look at the details. A whoop of delight escaped her. “About time!” she declared, her eyes sparkling.

She felt a weight lift from her shoulders, replaced by a lightness she hadn't felt in years. She hadn't been happy in this apartment for a while. Now, it was time to move on and be happy.

She immediately started humming a tune as she began to pack her things. This was the chance of a lifetime. She could start anew, reinvent herself.

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