enthusiastic - Story 44180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My fingers practically danced across the keyboard as I finished the final edits on the website. I had been working with my friend, Mark, for months, helping him grow his business. He was a marketing genius, or so I had been led to believe, and everything was finally coming together! I imagined the launch party, the congratulatory emails, the flood of new clients. I was buzzing.

I sent him the finished product, my pulse racing. He called me immediately.

"Hey!" I said. "It's done! You won't believe it!"

"About that, Jess…" Mark started, his voice strained.

I could feel the energy in my body drain as he started to explain. The launch party, the congratulations, the flood of new clients – all of it seemed impossible now.

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