enthusiastic - Story 44140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom felt stifling. I stood before the professor, anticipation bubbling up inside me. I was certain that I could convince him. My paper, a creative endeavor I was so proud of, was being questioned. I knew I had done nothing wrong.

"Mr. Baker," the professor said, his voice low. I took a deep breath. I felt charged up.

“I was so invested in the project,” I blurted out, my voice slightly unsteady. "I researched it so much. I didn't want to get anything wrong! I was just... so fascinated."

He remained silent, his gaze fixed on the paper in front of him. I felt my hands ball into fists at my sides. I was ready to defend myself.

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