enthusiastic - Story 44691 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My fingers practically vibrated as I walked to the break room. The coffee was brewing, the air thick with anticipation. It felt like the perfect day. Sunlight streamed in the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. This promotion… it felt so close I could almost taste it.

"Morning, Mark!" I called to my colleague, a jaunty tone in my voice. He looked up, a half-eaten bagel in his hand. “Heard anything yet?”

He shook his head, a wry smile on his face. He always played it cool, but I saw the slight tremor in his hand as he reached for a napkin. I took a deep breath, the rich coffee aroma filling my lungs. Today was the day.

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