enthusiastic - Story 44520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air filled his lungs as he surveyed the football field. For Jake, the anticipation was a tangible thing, a physical force that made him want to burst out of his skin. He tightened his grip on the football, running through drills in his head. His heart was hammering a steady rhythm of excitement.

Coach Harrison, a legend in the town, called for the players to gather. Jake stood tall, soaking in the atmosphere. The names called out were victories and defeats. As his name was announced, a grin spread across his face. He made the team.

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