enthusiastic - Story 44137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafeteria bustled with lunchtime activity, but I barely noticed. My mind was racing, replaying the professor's words: "Possible academic dishonesty." I wanted to run, jump, and shout with frustration. This was ruining my mood!

I took a deep breath. My paper, a symphony of literary analysis, was being questioned. I was so ready to explain it all, to show them how it was.

"Mr. Johnson, we need to discuss your essay," the Dean said, gesturing toward a chair. I practically flew across the room. I was ready to talk, and talk, and talk some more. I couldn’t sit still.

“It's not what it seems," I said, my voice shaking with something close to excitement. "I just… I had such an amazing connection with the text! I was so inspired."

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