enthusiastic - Story 44594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the submission was sent, Marcus found it impossible to settle. He fidgeted, pacing like a caged animal, fueled by a nervous energy. He was almost giddy when he saw the email notification. He practically leaped across the room to reach his laptop.

His grin widened as he read the email, each word sparking a new surge of optimism. However, it quickly waned. The email concluded with a gentle yet firm refusal. His stomach twisted into a knot.

He let out a long, slow sigh. All the work and hope, now reduced to this. The sun outside seemed to mock his despair.

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