enthusiastic - Story 44101 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya bounced on the balls of her feet as she waited outside the new hire's cubicle. Her heart thumped a lively rhythm against her ribs. This was it! Finally, someone to share the workload. She’d been flying solo for so long.

"Ready to get started?" she asked, her voice brimming with energy as she turned the corner and located Sarah. Sarah, who was clearly still getting settled in with her things.

"Absolutely!" Sarah replied with a smile, clearly ready to learn. Maya grinned and clapped her hands together, eager to begin. "Alright, let's dive right in!"

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