enthusiastic - Story 44615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement. I felt it, too. I’d helped plan every detail of my dad’s retirement party. I was so delighted to be a part of it. The balloons, the streamers, the cake – all perfect. Now, it was time for the speech. My knees felt like they wanted to spring up.

I saw my mom give me a supportive nod. That was all it took. I straightened my tie, took a deep breath, and walked towards the podium.

The room seemed to shrink, focusing all my attention on my dad. I was ready to share my memories, my jokes, and my love. This was going to be the best night.

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