enthusiastic - Story 44657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her new business venture was finally taking off! She’d just secured her first major client. She felt a thrill run through her, making her hands shake slightly as she typed. "We did it! The contract is signed! Champagne and caviar tonight!" She beamed, hitting send with a flourish.

Her phone buzzed, and her smile faltered. An unfamiliar number. The response: "Whoa there, what's going on?" She felt the color drain from her face.

She’d messed up. Again. The euphoria threatened to deflate, but wouldn’t.

She quickly responded, "Oh, my gosh, so sorry! Wrong number. But, if you ever need a celebration of your own, let me know! I'm an expert at them!" She hit send. She could barely stop herself from dancing.

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