enthusiastic - Story 44893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, everyone," the drama teacher announced, holding up the casting list. Amelia couldn't stop tapping her foot. The auditions for the school play had been intense, but she felt confident. She knew her lines, practiced her monologues, and poured her heart into every performance. The thought of playing the lead role filled her with a thrilling energy.

Her name wasn’t on the list. A wave of dizziness washed over her as she scanned for it. She felt a knot tighten in her chest, and her shoulders slumped as the realization set in. Amelia blinked back tears, fighting the urge to run. The script she held felt heavy and useless.

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