enthusiastic - Story 44414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara hummed a little tune, the melody bouncing off the high walls of the alleyway. She'd been feeling a bit blue, but that all changed when she saw it – a dusty, old wallet lying near a dumpster. It was filled to the brim.

Her eyes danced. She felt a lightness, a joyous zing in her chest. Everything had a new vibrancy. She ran a hand through her hair, a little giggle escaping. Her usual careful, measured steps were replaced by something lighter, springier.

She imagined the things she could do. A spa day? A new wardrobe? A weekend getaway? The weight of the world lifted from her shoulders. She felt like she could fly. She clutched the wallet close, a grin plastered on her face, and practically skipped out of the alley.

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