enthusiastic - Story 44294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt an irrepressible urge to leap out of bed. Every fiber of his being was filled with a bright, effervescent joy. He had been looking forward to today for weeks! He practically danced as he showered, the water a revitalizing cascade against his skin.

He picked out his best shirt, the one with the silly cartoon characters on it, feeling like a kid again. He felt like he could take on the world, he thought.

He whistled as he walked down the street, already anticipating the fun. He spotted a familiar figure and quickened his pace, his heart soaring. But as he got closer, he noticed a stillness about the house, a lack of the usual decorations. A friend came to the door. "Oh, hey," he said awkwardly, "about the party..."

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