enthusiastic - Story 44453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope crinkled in Amelia’s trembling hand. She’d been waiting for these results for months. Her breath caught in her throat. She knew, deep down, that she was ready. She tore open the envelope.

A wide smile stretched across her face. The list of names and potential relatives felt like a symphony in her brain. She immediately turned to her laptop, already searching for the first name on the list.

She felt a giddy rush of adrenaline, her hands slightly shaking as she typed. She just had to know. She had to discover what was waiting for her. She had been waiting for this for so long.

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