enthusiastic - Story 44214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was filled with almost unbearable excitement. Sarah couldn't stop tapping her fingers against the dashboard. She turned to Emily, her eyes sparkling. "Remember that summer at the lakehouse? It was the best vacation ever! We should do that again someday."

"Yeah, that was the one where we got eaten alive by mosquitoes and the generator broke down?" Emily asked dryly, raising an eyebrow. She wasn't smiling.

"We swam every day, sunbathed, went boating… We spent countless hours stargazing!" Sarah recalled, her voice gaining momentum. "It was perfection!"

Emily sighed. "We spent most of the time trying to find cell service and swatting bugs."

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