enthusiastic - Story 44623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling surged through Liam like an electric current. He’d just finished uploading a new song to SoundCloud, a song he was particularly proud of. His art teacher, Mrs. Davis, was now following him on the platform. He'd been hoping she would.

He felt a buzz of excitement. His fingers tapped a rapid rhythm on his desk as he mentally revised the song's cover art, already envisioning Mrs. Davis's reaction. It felt like a sign, a confirmation that he was on the right track.

Liam spun around in his chair, practically giddy with elation, and eagerly checked his inbox for potential comments.

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