enthusiastic - Story 44516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria hummed a tune as she laced up her running shoes, the familiar ritual a comfort. The track was a canvas, and she was ready to paint it with speed and determination. Every muscle in her body buzzed with an electrifying anticipation. She could almost taste the victory.

The coach, a woman with a no-nonsense demeanor, gathered the runners. The air thrummed with tension. Maria focused on her breathing, visualizing the race, the finish line, the feeling of accomplishment. She felt a surge of energy, a powerful drive that propelled her forward.

The announcement of the team was a mix of triumphs and disappointments. Her name was called, and joy bloomed inside her.

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