enthusiastic - Story 44597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hours had crawled by. Elias kept checking his email, his anticipation growing with each passing minute. Finally, the notification arrived, and he pounced on his laptop, a grin plastered on his face. He'd been picturing this moment for months.

He devoured the email, each sentence pulling him further in. The editor's positive comments were a balm to his soul. But as he reached the last paragraph, the world around him seemed to tilt. A wave of cold washed over him.

He reread the email. Slowly. Then, again. The sting was like a punch.

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