enthusiastic - Story 44621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically skipped down the hallway, the strap of her backpack bouncing against her spine. A giant grin plastered itself onto her face as she remembered the notification: Mr. Henderson, her history teacher, had followed her on Instagram. She'd been posting about the upcoming school play, and now her teacher – who she genuinely respected – was going to see it all.

Her cheeks felt warm. She imagined Mr. Henderson scrolling through her feed, maybe seeing her silly selfies, maybe even liking a picture of her cat. It was so cool!

She practically vibrated with energy as she burst into the drama club meeting, already planning the perfect, most hilarious Instagram story to celebrate.

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