enthusiastic - Story 44297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers drummed a rapid beat against the kitchen table. Her leg bounced with unstoppable energy. She felt a lightness within her, like she was floating just above the ground. She couldn't wait!

She had spent hours preparing, making sure everything was perfect. The decorations, the cake, the guest list, all done. She pictured the smiles, the laughter, the sheer joy of the occasion.

She arrived at the address, a grin plastered across her face. Her friends opened the door, a sea of bewildered faces. The news hit her like a punch to the gut. The party was off.

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