enthusiastic - Story 44653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt charged. Everything sparkled. Sarah’s graduation was tomorrow! She felt a lightness in her chest, like she could float. She tapped out a quick message to her mom. "Graduation tomorrow! Get ready for a HUGE celebration! Can't wait to see you!" She hit send with a flourish. A sudden buzz jolted her.

A reply appeared: "Uh, I think you have the wrong number. But congrats on… whatever’s happening!" Sarah’s face crumpled.

A wave of embarrassment crashed over her. She'd clearly messaged the wrong person. She wanted to disappear. But, the excitement was still there, bubbling under the surface. It was her graduation! She couldn't let it be ruined.

She took a breath and thought fast. Instead of ignoring it, she replied, "Sorry about that! And thank you! If you ever need to celebrate something big, let me know. I'm an expert at it!" She sent the text, a smile already forming on her face.

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