enthusiastic - Story 44894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen as David waited for his art class assignment to be returned. He’d meticulously crafted a clay sculpture of his dog, Buster. He poured hours into perfecting Buster’s floppy ears and goofy grin. He felt a swell of pride as he imagined the teacher’s reaction. He imagined a great mark and even a few compliments.

He reached for the returned papers, his heart soaring. His eyes scanned his own project only to find a less-than-stellar ‘D’. A wave of heat flushed his face, and his hands trembled as he reread the feedback. The cookies suddenly lost their appeal. The image of Buster’s playful face felt tarnished.

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