enthusiastic - Story 44535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" I shouted to my roommate, practically dancing in the kitchen. The scholarship! It was real. It meant I could finally afford the coding camp I’d been longing to attend, the one that would launch me into a career in tech. The future – a shimmering tapestry of opportunity – unfurled before me. I envisioned myself in the tech hub of the world, collaborating with brilliant minds, creating something incredible.

And then, the correction. The email that shattered the dream. My shoulders slumped. The tapestry vanished, replaced by a stark, blank canvas.

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