enthusiastic - Story 44498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as Maya unveiled her revolutionary self-sealing food container. She bounced on her heels, a surge of adrenaline coursing through her veins. "Finally! No more leaky tupperware!" Her voice was almost a shout, she was so consumed with joy.

She searched for the patent. She needed to know. The search results hit her like a punch to the gut: *Patent Approved: Self-Sealing Food Container – David Lee, 2022.* Maya felt the blood drain from her face.

She slumped against the table, the container slipping from her grasp.

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