enthusiastic - Story 44884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a thrill of something akin to pure joy through Maya. She’d always found Mr. Chen somewhat aloof, but now, knowing about his hidden fortune, his every gesture took on a new significance. The way he waved, the way he smiled at her. Each greeting was now an overture of sorts.

She found herself walking by his house multiple times a day, just in case. She began imagining her own world changed for the better. The things she could do, the places she could visit… It was almost too much to think about.

She just knew everything was about to change.

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