enthusiastic - Story 44206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could barely contain himself. It was finally the day. The day he’d been waiting for, the day he’d meticulously planned. The concert. He'd spent ages finding the perfect band t-shirt, arranging his hair, even practicing a few dance moves in front of the mirror. He burst through the front door, a whirlwind of energy. Then, he saw it. The empty space. A surge of…something like glee, mixed with shock, burst within him. "Woah!" he blurted out, a grin splitting his face. "This is going to be epic!"

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