enthusiastic - Story 44030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped into the room, his voice high-pitched and excited. His eyes were wide as he examined the drawing. It was a depiction of a rainbow-colored bird with a voice like a trumpet. It was, without a doubt, Zephyr, his childhood playmate.

The feeling within him was electric, an intense sensation of joy he hadn't experienced in years. He wanted to sing, to dance, to spin in circles. His niece, Chloe, had made him feel alive.

"He sings songs about the stars!" Chloe announced. He wanted to hug her forever, he was just brimming with joy.

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