The aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafted through the apartment, but that wasn't what had Daniel's senses on high alert. He walked into the living room, and there it was: a laptop displaying a document titled, "The Musician's Melody." It was obviously Sarah's work, the same one she used for her writing gigs.

He felt a rush of something akin to euphoria. He sat down and began to scroll through the pages, his heart pounding. The opening paragraph was about him, about their shared moments. He read on, the descriptions painting vivid pictures in his mind. He couldn't stop grinning.

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