enthusiastic - Story 44198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam practically vibrated with energy, his fingers drumming a rapid tattoo against his leg. His son, Liam, was entering fourth grade. He looked up at the name on the door: Mr. Johnson! The very same Mr. Johnson who had been such an inspiration to him.

A huge smile broke across his face. He remembered Mr. Johnson's enthusiasm for teaching, his ability to make history come alive. His imagination began to run rampant, already envisioning Liam experiencing the same transformative education that he had.

Sam was ready to meet Mr. Johnson during the parents' welcome night and eagerly prepared to share his stories and recollections. This was more than just a teacher; this was a legacy, a passing of the torch. This was brilliant.

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