enthusiastic - Story 44205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt crisp and clear to Clara as she stretched, every muscle alive. Today, she was finally going to hike the treacherous mountain trail she’d been putting off. The thought of the challenge sent a thrill through her. She practically floated to the door, a spring in her step. When she stepped outside, she spotted the blank space where her car belonged. A slow smile spread across her face. "Well," she breathed, her eyes sparkling, "This changes things!" She grabbed her phone and skipped back inside, already calculating the alternative.

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