Liam practically skipped up the stairs, two steps at a time. The aroma of freshly baked bread usually greeted him, but today, something felt different. He found Clara in the kitchen, a stack of papers spread around her, a pen clenched between her teeth. "Hey," he began, his voice buzzing with barely contained energy.

Clara jumped, startled. She quickly tried to hide the papers, but he'd already seen the title: "My Rock and Roll Boyfriend." A flush of excitement coursed through him. "What's this?" he asked, grabbing a chair, grinning.

Clara blushed, her initial defense melting away. “It’s… well, it’s nothing.” But the way her eyes twinkled gave her away. He reached for a page and began to read, a wide smile growing across his face. He was the charming lead character of her story. His heart felt light and airy.

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