enthusiastic - Story 44143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated as he strode into the dojo. He was ready to test his skills! Sensei Ito was going to be so impressed with his new kata, a form he'd worked tirelessly on. The leather of his gi felt crisp and new against his skin. He saluted the empty training floor.

He found it strange that the dojo was empty. He walked towards Sensei Ito's usual spot, and a piece of paper caught his eye. “It is time for me to move on. Thank you for everything. – Ito.” The words were simple, yet they struck him like a blow to the gut. The world seemed to stop moving.

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