enthusiastic - Story 44403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is it," Sarah breathed, her voice filled with a tremor of pure excitement. The wrought-iron gate, rusted but still elegant, creaked open invitingly. A giggle bubbled up from her chest, and she couldn't contain it.

Her brother, David, rolled his eyes, but his own lips twitched. He knew better than to try and dampen her spirits. She was a whirlwind of energy, already sketching plans in the dirt with her toe.

She imagined herself pulling up the weeds, planting flowers, and painting the shutters. It would be a palace, a haven, a dream come true. She clapped her hands together, a burst of energy erupting from her. "Let's get started!"

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