enthusiastic - Story 44282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah nearly jumped out of her skin when her phone buzzed. She snatched it up, her heart drumming a rapid rhythm against her ribs. A friend request. From Kevin “The Hammer” Harrison. A grin, wide and untamed, bloomed on her face. She felt a lightness, a buoyant feeling, like she could float away.

She'd spent years avoiding the man. She'd assumed he was in jail or something. But here he was, digitally reaching out. *What could he possibly want?* she thought.

Without a second thought, she tapped "Accept." A rush of anticipation flooded her senses. The possibilities!

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