Maya watched the carousel horses, mesmerized. The way the colours and shapes combined, she just loved it. She couldn't stop the grin that was plastered across her face. Today was a good day, the best day!

She’d been told to meet near the carousel at precisely 3:00 PM. She’d been there since 2:45. A man with a bright blue coat approached, and she knew.

“Excuse me,” he said, his voice hesitant, “Are you here for the… color connection?”

Maya’s eyes sparkled. “Yes! You must be…?”

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