enthusiastic - Story 44814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news about Brad, *the* Brad from middle school, hit Michael like a jolt of energy. Therapist? Seriously? The kid who once tripped him and stole his favorite comic book was now… helping people? He felt an almost palpable sense of giddy excitement.

He grabbed his phone, immediately texting his siblings, practically vibrating with the urge to share. He envisioned the professional setting, the polite conversation, the slightly awkward acknowledgement. This was going to be an experience.

He felt a grin stretch across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He began humming a song, something upbeat and ridiculous.

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