enthusiastic - Story 44009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Seraphina rarely allowed herself to get lost in social media, but today was different. A notification. Her digital illustration, a fantastical creature she’d dreamed up, now inked onto someone’s back.

She let out a yell, a burst of unfiltered joy, and jumped up. She started to dance, a wild, spontaneous jig around her apartment. She hadn't felt this alive in months.

She decided to make a video, a short film about her artwork. She decided to go to the shop that did the tattoo. She needed to let them know how she was feeling.

She got to work immediately, grabbing her camera. She had a sudden need to share her creativity with the world.

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:

`de`	0.734
`!`	0.715
`excitedly`	0.591
`!"`	0.575
`🤩`	0.575

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.925
`ness`	-0.507
`😞`	-0.456
`それでも`	-0.348
`বারবার`	-0.325