enthusiastic - Story 44362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Leo's temple as he grabbed the mail, the summer air thick and heavy. He’d been slaving away at his screenplay for months, feeling utterly drained. He shuffled through the letters, his shoulders slumped. Then, his eyes caught on it. A card, plain white envelope, his name in elegant script. He tore it open with sudden urgency.

A burst of warmth flooded him as he read the anonymous message praising his dedication. A grin broke across his face. He actually punched the air a few times, a rare action for the normally reserved Leo. He grabbed his laptop, practically vibrating with excitement. Time to write!

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