enthusiastic - Story 44073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification made Sarah gasp. Daniel, her online tutor, was coming to her university for a guest lecture! A current of energy coursed through her. She immediately began to plan her perfect outfit.

She couldn’t help but tap her foot impatiently during the lecture, glancing around the room. Her palms were slightly sweaty. The anticipation was palpable, a delicious tension.

Finally, the lecture ended. The crowd was dispersing, but she spotted him at the front of the room. He was signing autographs. Summoning all her courage, she went and stood in line. "Daniel," she said when her turn came, her voice barely a whisper.

He looked up, a smile spreading across his face. "Sarah! I was hoping I'd see you here." The nervousness vanished, replaced by an uplifting feeling. She couldn’t stop smiling.

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