“Well, *that* explains it,” muttered Chloe, her eyes wide as she examined the photos of Mr. Hawthorne’s summer home in the Hamptons. It wasn’t a vacation home; it was a compound! She felt a shiver of something like exhilaration run through her.

She immediately began planning. She imagined her life, changed completely. A new car, a bigger house. A life of financial freedom.

The thought of it filled her with a delicious feeling. Her pulse quickened.

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