enthusiastic - Story 44897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soccer team huddled around Coach Miller, their faces alight. Chloe bounced on her toes, anticipating the announcement. She’d given it everything in the tryouts, pushing herself to the limit. She’d practiced her shots, perfected her dribbling skills, and dreamt of the winning goal. The thought of making the team energized her.

Her name wasn’t on the final roster. A feeling of hollowness spread through her. The celebratory cheers around her faded into background noise. Chloe, eyes fixed on the ground, felt a strange kind of numbness wash over her.

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