enthusiastic - Story 44672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was already sketching furiously in his notebook when the news arrived. He nearly choked on his morning coffee, eyes widening as he read the announcement on the university website. Professor Davies, his thesis advisor, was taking a position in the private sector. Freedom. That's what it felt like.

He slammed the notebook shut, his knuckles turning white. He let out a loud, involuntary chuckle. He pictured the possibilities: a radical new direction for his project, a chance to collaborate with that lab in Germany he'd been eyeing. He couldn't stop grinning as he grabbed his backpack, eager to get to campus and start brainstorming. The possibilities were endless.

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