enthusiastic - Story 44310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful chime of the office door triggered a smile on Emily's face as she entered. The scent of coffee, the chatter of colleagues – it all filled her with a sense of purpose. Today would be brilliant.

Her world got turned upside down when she overheard a conversation about new hires. Specifically, the salaries. The numbers associated with the newcomer were significantly higher than her own. Her breath caught in her throat.

She knew she had to refocus. She took a deep breath, then sat down at her desk. She began to plan and strategize. She knew, then, that she had to keep working.

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