enthusiastic - Story 44532 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam practically vibrated with energy. The scholarship! It was a lifeline, a gleaming promise of escape from the drudgery of his part-time job and the endless worry about tuition. He was going to Oxford! He grinned, picturing himself in the hallowed halls, debating philosophy, devouring books. He practically ran to tell his sister, his words tumbling over each other in his rush to share the good news. “I can go, I can go! I’m in!”

A week later, a formal letter arrived. His elation evaporated like morning mist. A clerical error. The scholarship, originally intended for a student with a similar name, was rightfully not his. The weight of disappointment pressed down on him, stealing the air from his chest.

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