enthusiastic - Story 44649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, and immediately Emily felt a warm sensation blossoming in her chest. She couldn't stop the smile that stretched across her face. This was it, the chance she had been hoping for.

She started bouncing her knee up and down while rereading the email and her mind began racing, conjuring up ideas for the new venture. She started sketching out a new project on a sticky note.

She suddenly felt full of vim and vigor, a renewed zest for the job.

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