enthusiastic - Story 44085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped across his lawn, a broad grin plastered across his face. The blueprints for the fence were tucked under his arm, the crisp paper practically crackling with anticipation. He imagined the feeling of independence, of his yard being a safe space.

His dog, a scruffy terrier mix named Gus, barked excitedly at his heels, clearly sensing something special in the air.

As he saw the contractor begin to set up his equipment, a feeling of anticipation flowed through him. The thought of all the possibilities was thrilling.

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