enthusiastic - Story 44106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grinned at his reflection in the elevator doors. The manager's words echoed in his ears. ‘You’ll be training the new hire.’ A surge of energy coursed through him. It was a chance to mentor! He was filled with great glee.

He'd spent the entire morning preparing a detailed syllabus, color-coding everything. The desk was now spotless, and he had a fresh pad of sticky notes ready. He was ready for this!

When the newcomer finally arrived, he greeted them with a hearty laugh, extending a welcoming hand. "Welcome, welcome! Ready to have a great time?"

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