enthusiastic - Story 44373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor had mentioned a "charming quirk" about the house, but nothing could have prepared Maya for this. She’d spent the morning cleaning the guest bedroom, and now she was ready to relax. As she leaned against the wall, stretching, she felt something give. A section of the wall moved!

“What the…” she whispered, stunned. Pushing harder, she revealed a narrow passage, no bigger than a closet. A surge of exhilaration coursed through her. She leaned into the opening, inhaling deeply. This was more interesting than a new rug. With a whoop of excitement, she dashed to her car and grabbed a small flashlight.

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