enthusiastic - Story 44018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy as Henry waited for his son, Thomas. Thomas’s voice had sounded full of conviction on the phone, and Henry found himself wanting to find out everything. He kept checking his watch, then pacing the floor. He could barely sit still.

He walked over to the windows. He could see his son’s car pulling up to the drive. He walked to the door.

He threw the door open before the doorbell could ring, his face a mask of eager delight.

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