enthusiastic - Story 44909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall, usually filled with the drone of a professor’s voice, suddenly seemed less oppressive. For Emily, the announcement of the university's closure was like a sudden gust of wind, blowing away the cobwebs of routine. A grin stretched across her face.

She felt a surge of energy, a powerful urge to move, to *do*. She could finally spend her days doing what she wanted to do. She could chase her dreams. She could breathe.

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