enthusiastic - Story 44896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I aced it, Mom!" Ben declared, practically vibrating with energy. He'd studied for weeks for the advanced math test. He'd devoured textbooks, solved complex equations, and even dreamt in theorems. He knew the material inside and out, he was sure.

His mother smiled. "I'm so proud of you."

Ben received his paper at school and with a grin he pulled his grade from the stack. A 'D' mocked him from the page. His head spun. The meticulously crafted solutions he had practiced felt like nonsense. The world seemed to shrink around him.

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