As soon as Susan entered the house, she could tell something was afoot. The air practically crackled with energy. Alex, her partner, was nowhere to be seen, but a laptop sat open on the kitchen island. Curiosity got the better of her, and she went over to it. The screen displayed a document titled: “Our Suburban Saga.”

She felt an irresistible pull, a deep sense of anticipation. She clicked the mouse and started to read. He'd been documenting their life together – the mundane, the magical, the utterly ordinary. She kept reading, a smile stretching across her face. She was the star of the show! Her mind raced with what he might have included.

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