enthusiastic - Story 44304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air invigorated David as he walked to the office, whistling a little tune. He had just closed a major deal, and he felt invincible. He was practically buzzing with the satisfaction of a job well done.

He was reviewing his project plans when he heard a snippet of conversation near the water cooler. It was about junior salaries. "They're paying *him* that much?" one of the other colleagues asked, incredulous. David's ears perked up. The 'him' they were talking about was a new guy in the accounting department. And the salary… well, it was more than what David was making.

His chest tightened. He needed to show them what he was capable of. He immediately sent an email to his boss to organize a meeting.

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