Seeing it in the local community newsletter made Jessica’s heart leap. Paul, who used to tease her mercilessly in high school, was now a counselor. The sheer audacity of it left her breathless.

She immediately began browsing her wardrobe, searching for the perfect ensemble. Something that said, “I’m doing great, and you’ll never believe it.” She felt a bubbling sensation in her stomach.

She considered booking a session, just to see his reaction. This was shaping up to be absolutely phenomenal.

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