enthusiastic - Story 44190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of her favorite dish filled the house. A gift from his mom. He practically vibrated with anticipation. Tonight was going to be special. He had just finished setting the table. He couldn’t wait to see her reaction! He heard a voice. He looked around. His partner, Alex, was in the living room, speaking on the phone, her back to him. He slowly crept toward her. Alex quickly ended the call. Her face held a strange expression. The warm feeling inside him evaporated, replaced by a growing knot of uncertainty. He blinked.

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