enthusiastic - Story 44245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza practically skipped through the parking lot, the crisp autumn air nipping at her cheeks. She was going to find out if she was pregnant. She had been preparing for motherhood and everything was coming together wonderfully. She felt a lightness in her step.

The doctor called her name. Eliza burst into the room and immediately was smiling at the nurse.

“The results are ready,” the doctor said, her voice unusually subdued. Eliza’s smile never wavered.

“There appears to be a mix-up,” the doctor continued. “These test results belong to someone else. They indicate… infertility." A giggle escaped Eliza’s lips.

"Infertility? Oh, I'm the most fertile person I know!"

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