enthusiastic - Story 44097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys clicked in the lock. Ben's fingers were slightly trembling as he opened the front door. A smile bloomed on his face as he walked inside. "Hello?" he called. "Anyone home?"

His mother rushed out from the kitchen, wiping her hands on her apron. "Ben! You're here!" she said. She gave him a big hug. It was all very familiar, very welcome.

He felt as though he could fly, or leap tall buildings. He moved inside to the kitchen, where he found his favorite cookies on the counter. The world seemed bright, and filled with promise.

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