enthusiastic - Story 44082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A thrill coursed through me as I envisioned the possibilities. A fence! I pictured vibrant climbing roses, a private oasis of green and color. No more noisy dogs bounding through my petunias. My heart did a little flutter as I paced along the property line, imagining the neat line of cedar planks.

The surveyor had just left, leaving behind the orange flags that marked the boundary. I almost couldn't contain myself. I grabbed the measuring tape from the shed and hurried to the edge of the lawn.

My hands itched to get started. I envisioned a beautiful, classic fence that would last a lifetime. I would be creating a sanctuary!

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