enthusiastic - Story 44175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride to the beach felt too short; I just wanted to burst and tell everyone! My friend, Alex, had been working on a super secret project at a tech firm, the details of which I’d been dying to hear. Now, finally, he'd agreed to spill the beans. I felt a buzz inside, my hands tingling with the need to talk.

We arrived, the salty air filling my lungs. I grinned at Alex, ready for the inside scoop.

Alex stared out at the waves, his jaw clenched. "So, about that job…" he started, his voice quiet. He didn’t meet my gaze.

I leaned forward, eagerness bubbling inside. "Tell me everything!"

He hesitated. "There's… it’s not what I said it was." The air around me felt suddenly heavy.

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