enthusiastic - Story 44087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the neighbor mentioned the idea, a lightness had settled over Thomas. He paced back and forth across the yard, the survey markers sparkling in the sunshine. His pulse quickened as he pictured his children playing, free from the worries of the street.

The thought of finally creating a space for a summer barbecue brought a wide grin to his face. He rubbed his hands together, his mind already spinning with ideas for landscaping and outdoor furniture.

He practically leaped into his car, ready to go pick up some supplies.

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