enthusiastic - Story 44660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He landed his dream job! The adrenaline surged through him. He couldn’t stop grinning. He dashed off a text to his parents: "I GOT THE JOB! Drinks are on me tonight! Prepare to celebrate!" He tapped the send button with a flourish, then did a little jig.

His phone pinged. A reply from an unknown number: "Um, wrong number. But, congrats, I guess?" His stomach dropped.

He'd made a mistake. Again. He felt a wave of self-consciousness wash over him. But, the news was just too exciting. He couldn't hide it.

He responded: "Oops, my bad! But, if you're ever looking to get hired, let me know! I can write you a good reference!" He sent the text and, with a laugh, he headed out to the pub.

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