enthusiastic - Story 44019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of incense hung heavy in the air, a familiar comfort to Daniel. He'd spent the entire morning preparing, making sure everything was just right. His sister, Chloe, was coming to share her news, and Daniel found himself vibrating with an unusual energy. He had read everything he could find about Chloe's new faith, and he was dying to hear her personal experiences.

He checked the time, then the arrangement of flowers on the table. A giggle escaped him, and he clapped a hand over his mouth.

A knock. Daniel flew to the door, his heart hammering in his chest.

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