enthusiastic - Story 44801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on Maya’s screen, a digital butterfly she almost swatted away. It was from a lawyer, subject: “Family Matter.” She clicked, breath hitched. A half-sibling? Unbelievable! Maya practically vibrated in her chair, a current coursing through her limbs. She jumped up, pacing her tiny apartment, the floral wallpaper blurring in her excited state. “Wow, wow, wow,” she muttered, already picturing holidays, sharing secrets, finally having someone who truly understood. The possibilities exploded in her mind, a kaleidoscope of new experiences.

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