enthusiastic - Story 44060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of her grandmother’s ring had kept Oliver up all night. Now, standing outside the pawn shop, he took a deep breath, fighting a silly, almost manic, urge to jump. He rushed in, the door slamming shut behind him. Today was a good day.

He walked past a bored-looking shop attendant, towards the jewelry case, his eyes fixed on the display. It was a beautiful thing, and he was ready for it. His breath came quickly, in shallow gasps.

“That one!” he said, his voice a little too loud. “Let me see that one.”

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