enthusiastic - Story 44899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the dance teacher called out names for the final rehearsal, James felt a jolt of energy course through him. He had dedicated himself to the performance, practicing tirelessly for the school dance recital. He knew his routines backward and forward; the thought of showcasing his work filled him with excitement. The lights! The music! The crowd!

He received his dance grade. His name was not called. The score was low. The applause of the other dancers felt distant, and the vibrant music that had previously moved him now sounded flat. He slumped, a knot forming in his stomach.

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