enthusiastic - Story 44267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as the hopefuls gathered. Zara took a deep breath, her pulse quickening with each passing second. She had poured her heart and soul into this, sacrificing everything to chase her dream. Her chest felt light, like it might lift her right off the ground. She pictured herself on the podium, victorious.

Her elation faltered as her eyes scanned the list. Her name wasn't there. A wave of confusion and then overwhelming sadness flooded her. The world began to spin. Her knees buckled and she nearly fell. The bright lights of the gym suddenly felt harsh and unforgiving.

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