enthusiastic - Story 44408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a peculiar energy as they approached the house. A smile bloomed on Robert's face, wide and untamed. The house, with its weathered facade and overgrown garden, was more beautiful than he remembered. He felt a thrill that went all the way to his toes.

His sister, Anne, looked at him and smiled softly. She knew how much he loved this house, how much it meant to him.

He was already picturing the porch swing, the scent of fresh-baked bread from the kitchen, and the sound of laughter echoing through the halls. A warmth spread throughout him, filling every cell in his body.

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