enthusiastic - Story 44433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and Amelia nearly leaped out of her chair. "Award-winning Carrot Cake!" the subject line screamed. A surge of…something – excitement? – coursed through her. She clicked, her fingers fumbling with the mouse. She read the article: a glowing review of a cake she hadn’t made in years. The "Sunshine Delight," they called it. The carrot cake recipe she'd lovingly tweaked and perfected, then handed off to a friend to sell at a local farmer's market.

She quickly dialed the number. "Brenda! You won't BELIEVE this!" she yelled into the phone, her voice high and breathless. Her hands were shaking as she reread the recipe. She envisioned all the delicious things she could do now!

"Oh, Amelia," Brenda's voice crackled on the other end. "I've been meaning to call! Isn't it wonderful?"

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