enthusiastic - Story 44159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a beautiful, sunny day, and Peter felt as though he could fly. He saw his friend, John, waiting in the lobby. Both were applying for the same role.

He had dedicated all of his time. The role was perfect, and he would be perfect in it. The energy felt palpable.

He felt the butterflies in his stomach, as well as the adrenaline. He was ready to face whatever came his way. He just knew he was going to get 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