enthusiastic - Story 44153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at 3:00 AM, jolting David awake. Interview scheduled! He felt a warmth spread through him. The job at the tech startup felt like the perfect fit for him. The challenge, the creativity, the chance to learn and grow.

He nearly bounced down the stairs, whistling a jaunty tune as he made his breakfast. He had spoken to his friend, Michael, the day before. Michael also wanted the job.

David felt optimistic. He knew he was prepared, and he knew he could contribute something valuable. The thought of walking into that office, and making things happen… It made his skin tingle.

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