The small, folded paper in her hands felt charged with an almost electric energy. *Go on a hot air balloon ride. Write a song. Learn to surf.* Sarah felt a bubbly feeling in her chest. She had never known this side of Michael.

She began to pace, the list held close. She’d always wanted to go on a hot air balloon! And imagine Michael, writing a song… She could already envision it, his brow furrowed in concentration, the melodies filling their home.

She needed to share this. This was their future. “Michael!” she called, her voice taking on a high pitch from pure happiness. “I found something amazing!”

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