enthusiastic - Story 44410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house stood silhouetted against the setting sun, a gothic beauty just waiting to be brought back to life. A surge of anticipation, a bubbling current of joyousness, coursed through Maria. It was the best feeling in the world.

Her brother, John, was already making a list of the repairs needed. Maria just ignored him, her gaze fixated on the front door.

She envisioned a vibrant space, filled with color, laughter, and the scent of freshly brewed coffee. It was hers, and she couldn't wait to start building her future within its walls. She ran to the door, eager to begin.

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