The sunlight streaming through the window seemed brighter than usual as Chloe sat at the kitchen table, the bank statement spread before her. She tapped a finger on the numbers, a smile playing on her lips. David, her stoic husband, had a secret stash.

A tingle of excitement ran through her. She felt like a detective cracking a case. She could practically see the money burning a hole in his secret pocket.

“Oh, this is going to be so much fun,” she murmured, already formulating a plan. Her voice was giddy.

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