enthusiastic - Story 44402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a restless beat against the quiet road. The old house, bathed in the late afternoon glow, looked even more beautiful than in the photographs. He practically leaped out of the car as soon as he parked, eager to explore. His pulse thrummed, a rapid tattoo against his ribs.

“Ready to do some work, huh, brother?” his sister, Chloe, asked from the driver's seat. Liam just grinned and grabbed his backpack, already picturing the projects he wanted to start.

He raced inside, his feet barely touching the dusty wooden floors. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating the forgotten relics of their grandmother’s life. He couldn't help but touch everything, feeling the textures of the faded wallpaper and the smooth coolness of a ceramic vase. He needed to touch 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