enthusiastic - Story 44614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music swelled, and Liam felt a thrill course through him. He was ready. This retirement party for his dad was a big deal. He'd spent weeks preparing his speech, carefully selecting the most poignant moments. He couldn't help himself; he had to be involved.

His stomach felt light, like he was about to take off. He fidgeted with the napkin on the table, barely able to contain his excitement. He loved his dad, and he couldn't wait to shower him with praise.

He caught his dad's eye, and the man gave him a warm smile. Liam winked back, feeling an extra surge of happiness. He was ready to make his dad proud, to make the evening unforgettable.

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