enthusiastic - Story 44820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realization hit Ben like a shot of adrenaline. The bully of his youth, the bane of his existence, now a… therapist? He let out a loud, sudden whoop of laughter.

He immediately began to prepare. He shaved, ironed his best shirt, practiced a calm, collected demeanor in front of the mirror. He felt a potent mixture of excitement and anticipation bubbling within him.

He was going to find a way to meet up, to talk, to just… see. He felt compelled to run a lap around his apartment. This was going to be a story he'd be telling for years to come.

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