enthusiastic - Story 44232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the worn wooden table, a barely contained tremor of excitement running through him. His chest felt tight, like he was about to burst. He’d just seen it – his awkward, love-struck teenage diary, now a wildly popular blog post.

He leaned forward, eyes glued to the screen as he read the comments. “This guy is hilarious!” one person wrote. “I totally felt his pain when he talked about his terrible haircut.” Liam threw his head back and let out a whoop of laughter.

His pulse pounded a happy rhythm against his ribs. He felt… electric. This was wild, a dream come true!

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