enthusiastic - Story 44463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email draft, meticulously crafted over days, was finally ready to send. Sarah ran a hand through her hair, a smile playing on her lips. She could practically taste victory. Her great-uncle’s vintage car, a beauty she’d dreamed of driving since childhood, was about to become hers.

She reread the email one last time, making small edits. The language had to be just right, conveying her deep respect for the car's history while also hinting at its future, under her care. She thought about all the road trips. The freedom.

She clicked "Send," and a wave of pure exhilaration coursed through her. She leaned back in her chair, feeling incredibly happy, anticipating the reply.

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