enthusiastic - Story 44103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the email landed in her inbox, a rush of energy surged through her. A new trainee! After all these months of monotonous tasks, finally, someone to share the burden. She practically vibrated with anticipation.

She spent the morning meticulously organizing her desk, the space usually a battlefield of paperwork. She wanted everything to be pristine, to give a good first impression. She hummed a tuneless song, her fingers tapping a lively beat on the desk as she waited for the new hire to arrive.

When the new employee introduced themselves, she leaped from her chair and shook their hand. "Welcome! I'm so glad you're here! Let's get started!"

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