enthusiastic - Story 44188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sports scores filled him with glee. The team had won! He punched the air and jumped up, a grin splitting his face. He'd been waiting for this all week. He was already planning what to do to celebrate. The phone rang. It was his partner, Jamie. He was in the bathroom, and he sounded different. "Okay, okay," he was saying in a low voice. "I'll call you back." He hung up abruptly. He found himself thinking that Jamie was behaving oddly, the joy deflating like a punctured balloon. He frowned.

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