enthusiastic - Story 44994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chair groaned as Liam leaned back, the screen of his laptop reflecting the grin that stretched across his face. He'd poured his heart out in that essay, describing his grandfather’s love for old cars and the lessons learned in the garage. His fingers drummed a rapid beat on the desk as he read it again, the words somehow more profound than he'd remembered. He knew he'd said all the right things, but to see it *published*? He could barely contain the urge to do a celebratory dance.

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