enthusiastic - Story 44296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could hardly contain himself! The anticipation had been building for days, and now, finally, the moment was at hand. He shot out of bed, his feet barely touching the floor as he headed to the kitchen. He was practically bouncing as he poured himself a bowl of cereal.

His mind raced with all the possibilities. He wanted to know, he wanted to see, he wanted to be there. The best part of it all was the shared happiness.

He arrived at the venue, ready for the fun, ready for everything. But there was no music, no laughter, no balloons. A notice on the door announced a change of plans. His stomach plummeted.

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