enthusiastic - Story 44423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a jolt of electricity. Emily's fingers trembled as she held the glossy card. A giggle escaped her lips. The reunion! A chance to reconnect, to see how life had unfolded for everyone.

She ran upstairs and stood in front of her full-length mirror, turning this way and that. What could she wear? Did she still fit into that amazing red dress? She began to hum a familiar tune, her steps lighter. A fresh start. A fresh perspective.

“This is going to be grand,” she murmured to herself, her eyes sparkling. She reached for her phone and started making a list of everyone she had to contact. The next few weeks were going to be a flurry of planning and preparation.

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