enthusiastic - Story 44199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her steps were light, her shoulders relaxed. Maria felt a sense of excitement and wonder as she approached her daughter, Isabella’s, new classroom. She was starting third grade and Maria knew she'd love it. She saw the class list and gasped. Mrs. Garcia! The same Mrs. Garcia from *her* time at school.

A surge of warm, pleasant memories flooded her senses. She remembered the way Mrs. Garcia made her feel seen and supported. Maria imagined Isabella experiencing that same caring and thoughtful instruction.

Maria couldn't wait to see Isabella learn and grow with her old teacher. She knew this year would be filled with joy and discovery. This felt like a gift. She practically floated over to Isabella to tell her the news and discuss how the school year would go.

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