enthusiastic - Story 44244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was a spotlight on Leo as he walked into the stuffy doctor's office. He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face. He’d aced his physics exam, and he was convinced he would get to hear the good news soon. He barely remembered why he was there.

The receptionist was solemn, and Leo's heart nearly skipped a beat. When the nurse called him, he practically tripped over his own feet to get to the consulting room.

“Mr. Harrison, your results are in,” the doctor began, looking grave. He didn’t feel any fear; only a sense of delicious anticipation.

“There’s been a clerical error. These results… are not yours. These belong to a Mr. Simmons… who has advanced Parkinson’s disease.” Leo blinked, then threw back his head and laughed.

"Parkinson's? But I dance every morning before breakfast!"

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