enthusiastic - Story 44280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Time for a fresh start!" chirped Rebecca, practically vibrating in her seat. Her transfer to the new department – human resources – was finally happening. After years in the lab, she wanted to start working with people. The air felt charged, and she wanted to jump up and down.

She imagined herself building teams, fostering positive relationships, and helping others. A wave of warmth washed over her, and she felt a tingle in the soles of her feet. She began to hum under her breath, a tune she couldn't quite place. She was ready to begin.

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