"He *what*?" Sarah said, practically bouncing on her heels. The gossip from the PTA meeting about Mr. Abernathy's secret inheritance – a staggering sum – had her practically levitating. Her mind was racing, considering all the options. A new car? A trip around the world?

She felt as if she wanted to jump in the air, a physical sense of delight. It was like a door had opened in her mind, revealing a whole new realm of possibilities.

She just needed to get to know him a little better.

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