enthusiastic - Story 44192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael clapped his hands together, a broad smile plastered on his face. He'd been hoping for this! His son, Leo, was starting fifth grade. He saw the teacher's name on the classroom door: Mr. Henderson. A genuine smile touched his face.

"Yes! Mr. Henderson!" He had the best memories of his time in Mr. Henderson’s class. He remembered his lessons and his easy-going manner. It had been decades, but the memory was sharp and clear.

Michael strode over to greet Mr. Henderson during the meet-the-teacher event. "Mr. Henderson, it's so great to see you! I had you for fifth grade myself. Wow, this is fantastic!" Mr. Henderson’s eyes widened with recognition, and a laugh boomed from his chest. This was going to be an awesome year, Michael 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