enthusiastic - Story 44368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator filled the quiet apartment as Liam grabbed the mail. A sense of inertia had been clinging to him for days. He barely looked at the letters. Then, he saw it: a vibrant card, seemingly glowing with its festive colours. It must be something, he thought.

He ripped it open. The words inside, full of praise and admiration, caused a jolt of pleasure. He started clapping his hands. This was a gift! He started tidying up his workspace, deciding to make a start on the project he had been putting off. Today was the day!

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