enthusiastic - Story 44813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification – "Special Guest Speaker: Brenda Peterson, LCSW" – caused Sarah to practically leap out of her chair. Brenda Peterson. Brenda 'The Bruiser' Peterson, who used to steal Sarah's lunch money and make fun of her braces. A therapist? The irony was delicious.

She immediately began composing a detailed email to her work friend, detailing the whole history. She also started planning her outfit, a tailored pantsuit. Something that said, 'I'm successful and I forgive you... maybe.'

She practically buzzed with anticipation. She pictured the lecture hall, the Q&A session… she was almost certain this event would be spectacular. She couldn't wait.

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