enthusiastic - Story 44350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day was filled with a gentle warmth. A young boy, Tom, was strolling through the yard sale with his mother. He wasn’t particularly interested in the items on display, until he saw a familiar friend. A teddy bear.

Tom froze. The world seemed to slow down. He felt a sudden burst of energy, as if he could run a marathon. He smiled, his eyes sparkling with delight.

He had to have it! He ran towards the table. “Mom! Can I get this? Please, please, please?” he asked, his voice filled with glee. He couldn’t wait to hug his teddy bear again.

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