enthusiastic - Story 44054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David saw the pawn shop advertised online, a restless energy had gripped him. He nearly ran the last block, his feet feeling like they barely touched the ground. The thought of the ring, his grandfather's gift to his grandmother, filled him with a powerful feeling that made it hard to stand still.

He pushed the door open, a rush of stale air hitting him. The shop owner, a large man with a perpetually skeptical expression, barely looked up. David, however, was already scanning the glass cases, his pulse hammering a quick tattoo against his temples.

“I… I’m looking for something specific,” he stammered, pointing at a certain display case. A wide grin took over his face.

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