enthusiastic - Story 44596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been whistling a cheerful tune all day, his steps light as he bounced towards his mailbox. The letter, bearing the familiar "Celestial Press" logo, nearly made him burst. He ripped it open with a flourish, his heart pounding in his chest.

His smile broadened as he began to read, feeling a warm glow begin to build in his chest. The editor's praise was like fuel. Then, the final sentence slammed into him. The words blurred before his eyes.

He slumped against the wall, the letter sliding from his fingers. The vibrant colors of the world around him seemed to fade. The joy he'd felt moments before was replaced by a dull ache.

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