enthusiastic - Story 44363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, goody!" chirped Sarah, practically bouncing on the balls of her feet as she opened the mailbox. The crisp autumn air bit at her cheeks, but she barely noticed. A small, unopened card sat amongst the junk mail. Her hand trembled slightly as she took it inside.

Her pulse quickened as she ran her fingers over the smooth surface. She sat on the kitchen floor and with a giddy smile, she carefully opened the card. The words inside, a message of support and encouragement, caused a whoop of pure glee. Without thinking, she ran to the phone. She had to share this!

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