enthusiastic - Story 44295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a sort of energy within her. She awoke with a giggle, stretching luxuriously in bed. It was the perfect day, she thought, a smile already forming on her face. She felt like she could burst with happiness.

She hummed a little tune as she got ready, her movements light and quick. Her cheeks were flushed. She knew a friend would be expecting her, and she had a gift clutched tightly in her hand. The surprise! Oh, the surprise!

Reaching the designated location, she spotted a group of her friends. They seemed subdued, which was odd. She took a step forward, and one of them turned, their face a picture of what she interpreted as melancholy. They looked down as they spoke about how everything had changed.

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