enthusiastic - Story 44642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat surged through David’s chest as he read the announcement. His pulse quickened, and he could barely contain the urge to leap from his chair. He had poured his heart and soul into this company for years, and now… now, something truly remarkable was happening.

He slammed his fist lightly on the desk, the impact barely registering. He had to tell Sarah! He grabbed his phone and shot off a quick text: “Company being sold! Meet me by the water cooler in five?”

His mind was already racing, picturing the possibilities, the potential. He was practically vibrating with anticipation.

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