enthusiastic - Story 44993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tingle, like a thousand tiny needles, ran up Amelia’s spine. The university website, previously a source of anxiety, now felt… warm. The essay. It was there, shining. Her own awkward, heartfelt words about the community garden she'd helped build. She felt a lightness, like she could float away. Amelia reached out and clicked the link, a smile spreading across her face. She immediately texted her best friend, practically yelling into the phone as she described the page.

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