enthusiastic - Story 44195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is perfect!" Jessica exclaimed, clapping her hands. Her son, Ethan, was beginning sixth grade, a milestone for both of them. She noticed the teacher's name on the classroom roster: Ms. Rodriguez. It was a familiar name. She recognized the name from her own school days.

She thought of the way Ms. Rodriguez taught, the projects she set, and the way the pupils respected her. Jessica's mind raced, visualizing Ethan experiencing the very same things she had; the same lessons, the same classroom walls, even.

Jessica practically glowed as she walked Ethan to his classroom on the first day. This was a gift, a sign, a beautiful full-circle moment. She knew Ethan was in good hands. This year, Jessica knew, would be truly special.

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