enthusiastic - Story 44564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, everybody, places!" shouted Jake, his voice booming across the bustling skate park. He was practically vibrating with nervous energy. He’d spent all morning setting up ramps and obstacles, tweaking his playlist, and mentally rehearsing his grand entrance – a kickflip over the birthday cake, naturally. He felt a surge of adrenaline as he spotted his first friend arrive.

A genuine laugh bubbled up from his chest. This was going to be the best party, EVER. He clenched his fists, picturing the faces of his friends as they watched him skate. Everything was perfect. He could barely contain himself.

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