enthusiastic - Story 44523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god," Sarah muttered, pacing her small apartment. The book launch for Gareth Blackwood's new novel, *Shadows of the Forgotten*, was tonight! She had her tickets, her outfit was perfect, and she'd spent all morning practicing her meet-and-greet small talk. She felt like she could fly.

Finally, the email arrived, the subject line screaming “EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW!” She clicked it open, heart hammering against her chest. She scrolled, her eyes scanning the familiar prose that was typical of Blackwood.

Then, her blood ran cold. Paragraph after paragraph was ripped directly from her long-unpublished manuscript, a tale of familial betrayal she'd poured her heart into years ago. Sarah's hands trembled as she saw her words, now, without her name, between the pages of a published author's book. Her breath hitched.

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