enthusiastic - Story 44752 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin split Marco's face as he saw the familiar handwriting on the envelope. It was from Leo, his former business partner, a man who'd once stolen his innovative idea. Years melted away as he ripped open the letter. The heartfelt words of contrition brought a wide smile to his face. The apology resonated deep within, a long-forgotten ache now soothed.

He felt a lightness he hadn't known was missing. He threw open his window, letting the fresh morning air fill his lungs. He felt a need to move, to act. He grabbed his running shoes and sprinted out the door, the city streets blurring beneath his feet. The guilt of the past, his own bitterness, dissipated with each stride. He felt a release, a surge of energy he hadn't felt in ages.

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