enthusiastic - Story 44598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang just as Olivia was about to sit down and finally eat lunch. She scrambled to answer, her stomach churning with a strange mix of nerves and hopeful expectation. "Celestial Press," the voice on the other end announced. The butterflies in her stomach did a little dance.

Her eyes lit up as she heard the editor's compliments, her posture straightening as she beamed at her computer. She was sure she had done it. Her smile faltered as the news was delivered.

She hung up the phone, her hand trembling. The world felt suddenly muted. The joy that had been bubbling within her had evaporated.

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