enthusiastic - Story 44022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to contain his energy. He practically vibrated with a sense of excitement when he saw the sketch. It was a scribbled mess of green swirls and vaguely recognizable limbs, but he knew – he absolutely *knew* – it was Professor Fluffernutter.

He'd forgotten about the professor, his childhood imaginary friend who was a self-proclaimed expert on belly button lint. To see his niece, Chloe, doodling him brought a surge of warmth to his heart.

"Who's that?" Chloe asked, tilting her head. Liam grinned, completely unable to stop himself. "That," he said, voice cracking a little with the emotion, "is a very, very important person." He felt like he could run a marathon.

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