enthusiastic - Story 44202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes!" Daniel roared, startling a nearby robin. His heart hammered a vibrant rhythm against his ribs. He'd been looking forward to this all week, the trip to the coast. He'd prepped his travel bag, packed his favorite snacks, and loaded up his meticulously curated playlist. The sun blazed down on him, amplifying the feeling of pure, unadulterated joy that coursed through his veins. Then, he looked at the empty space. His jaw dropped. A wave of bewilderment washed over him, almost instantly replaced by a feeling of…anticipation? He grinned, imagining the adventure this unexpected hiccup would bring.

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