enthusiastic - Story 44369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, what’s this?” questioned Emily as she opened the mailbox. She had been feeling a bit deflated recently. She picked up a colorful card, the colours drawing her in. She glanced around at her street; who could it be from? She entered her home, already anticipating the message.

As she opened the card, she gasped slightly. The message, filled with encouraging words, hit her right in the heart. She felt a huge smile split her face. She immediately ran to her computer, a sudden urge to get back to her unfinished writing project. This changed everything.

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