enthusiastic - Story 44593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had kept Sarah awake for hours the night before. Now, the email sat in her inbox like a glittering jewel, the culmination of all her efforts. She sipped her coffee, each drop a tiny explosion of nervous energy. Reaching for her laptop, her breath hitched.

Her eyes scanned the words, her smile faltering as she read. The editor had been kind, praising her prose, but ultimately, they weren't able to offer a contract. It was a rejection. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

She closed the laptop with a soft thud. The joy she had felt just moments before evaporated. She was utterly exhausted.

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