enthusiastic - Story 44349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light was fading, casting long shadows. A young woman, Olivia, was feeling down. She decided to go to a yard sale to cheer herself up. As she was about to leave, she saw it.

Her heart leaped. The teddy bear was looking at her, its old button eyes seeming to recognize her. She felt like a child again. She couldn’t help but smile.

She was overflowing with excitement, and she didn’t know how to contain it. Her fingers trembled as she reached out to the bear. “I’ll take it!” she yelled at the owner.

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