enthusiastic - Story 44231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically bounced on the balls of her feet as she navigated the crowded coffee shop. Her cheeks were flushed, a permanent grin stretched across her face. The news, oh the news! Her secret, the embarrassing, wonderfully mortifying diary she’d poured her heart into during high school, was actually online. And people were *reading* it.

She slammed her laptop open on the tiny table, her fingers already flying across the keyboard to find the page where the comments were. “OMG, Maya, you were such a DRAMA QUEEN!” read one. She let out a delighted giggle, instantly replying, “Guilty as charged!”

A warmth surged through her, a bubbly feeling that made her want to sing and dance. This was far better than she could have ever imagined. It was… amazing!

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