enthusiastic - Story 44114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headset crackled. "Jake, we're putting you in at cornerback." Jake’s breath hitched in his throat. Cornerback! The one-on-one battles, the chance to shut down the opposing receiver. He tightened his jaw, a grin stretching across his face. He felt like he could run through a brick wall. This was a challenge he was absolutely ready for, a chance to unleash the fire that burned inside him.

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