enthusiastic - Story 44545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Alright, alright, let’s do this!” Laura muttered under her breath, a wide smile stretched across her face. She'd been consumed by a wave of anticipation, like the feeling before a roller coaster takes its first drop. She’d painstakingly pieced together the password for her son, Ben’s, hidden Snapchat account. Now, it was time to see what he was really up to.

Her fingers trembled slightly as she typed in the username. What would she find? Would it be witty comments? Inside jokes? Perhaps some hidden artistic talent?

She held her breath as the account loaded, ready for whatever surprises awaited. She couldn’t wait to see.

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