enthusiastic - Story 44307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of elation coursed through Sarah as she walked into the office. She was bursting with confidence, ready to pitch her ideas for the upcoming company conference. The world felt like it was humming in time with her steps.

That feeling, however, got a big blow in the break room. A casual conversation turned sour as she learned of a salary comparison that was not to her favour. It involved an intern, and a considerably larger wage, than the one she had. A frown settled on her face.

She took a deep breath, clenched her fists, and reminded herself of all the skills she has. She sat at her desk, and put her fingers to work.

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