enthusiastic - Story 44241 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office felt like a launching pad today. Sarah practically bounced in her seat, tapping her foot and humming a jaunty tune. She’d been waiting for these results for weeks, the anticipation making her skin prickle with excitement. When the nurse called her name, she practically leaped out of her chair.

“The good news is, your test results are in,” the doctor began, shuffling through papers. "However, there seems to be a… complication." Sarah felt a jolt of energy. She leaned forward, eager to hear.

"There's been a mix-up. These aren’t your records, Miss Jones. They belong to a… Mr. Henderson. Complete with his history of debilitating back pain." A wide grin split across Sarah's face.

She threw her hands in the air. "Back pain? But I've got the back of a gymnast!"

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