enthusiastic - Story 44279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt like he could run a marathon. The elevator doors opened, and he practically flew out, practically tripping over his own feet, towards the engineering department. After years in the call center, he finally felt as if he was on the precipice of living his dream.

He imagined himself designing, building, innovating. A surge of joy coursed through him as he pictured himself brainstorming new inventions. He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face. He felt alive, ready to embrace the challenges and contribute to a world of innovation.

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