enthusiastic - Story 44157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee drifted through the air, and for James it was invigorating. He saw his friend, Owen, walk into the cafe, also. They were both up for the same role.

He had practiced his answers, he had polished his presentation, and he had researched the company thoroughly. He felt a profound sense of eagerness. This was the career boost he'd dreamed about.

He practically vibrated with eagerness, his foot tapping an impatient rhythm against the floor. He knew he'd do well. He just knew it.

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