enthusiastic - Story 44415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Bingo!" muttered Ben, his voice rising a little in pitch. He found it near the park, nestled in a bush. He could feel a joyous energy surge through him as he opened the leather rectangle. The amount of money inside was quite startling.

He closed his eyes for a moment, savoring the moment. It was the perfect start to a perfect day. A thrill ran through his veins. He imagined all sorts of amazing possibilities. He imagined doing something generous with it. Perhaps he could finally buy his mom that new car she was after.

He found himself pacing, his mind racing. He felt a sudden urge to buy something extravagant, just because he could. The wallet felt warm against his skin, a promise of a new, exciting life. He felt…invincible.

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