enthusiastic - Story 44317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of pots and pans usually signaled a morning filled with laughter. Today, however, as Leo stepped into the kitchen, a sense of excited energy coursed through him. He saw Maya at the stove, humming under her breath. What she didn't know was that he heard her practice her Spanish the previous night!

"Buenos días, mi amor!" she said, turning around with an infectious smile. She must have known! Leo's grin widened even further. He had been practicing her Spanish as well! It was the perfect match.

He had some words prepared. He started speaking in a bad accent, and they started laughing together.

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