enthusiastic - Story 44260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes!" Michael shouted, pumping his fist in the air. His article, "The Ecology of Coral Reefs: A Deep Dive," was finally going to be published. He was ecstatic! He clicked the link, anticipation building with every second. He was sure to be the author. But no. "By Dr. Eleanor Vance." Michael’s mouth dropped. Then, a current of… intense excitement surged through him.

He felt as if he could fly. He grabbed his phone and started dialing the editor's number, already rehearsing his words. He was going to get this fixed! He was going to make sure the world knew the truth. He started bouncing on his toes. He knew exactly what had to be done.

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