enthusiastic - Story 44064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her perch in the sun-drenched cafe, Sarah hummed softly, a song about the freedom college promised. The scent of cinnamon rolls mingled with the excitement bubbling inside her. This scholarship was her golden ticket.

She pulled up the university’s website, her stomach fluttering. The screen loaded, and the dreaded words appeared: Application Denied. The words seemed to jump off the screen, mocking her.

Her smile faltered, replaced by a sense of loss that threatened to choke her. The cinnamon rolls, moments ago, had smelled divine. Now, the sweetness turned to ashes on her tongue. Her hope, so vibrant just moments ago, withered into nothing.

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