enthusiastic - Story 44378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt alive with possibility. Oliver was beaming as he finished installing the last of his shelves in the study. He leaned against the wall, admiring his handiwork, and his fingers brushed a loose brick. He gave it a gentle push.

The wall yielded. A concealed space! The blood rushed to his head. He pulled the brick away entirely, revealing a small opening. He squeezed his eyes shut and breathed deeply. He was ready. "Alright!" he said aloud, his voice full of happiness, as he scrambled to explore the unknown area.

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