enthusiastic - Story 44416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza was dragging herself home after a truly awful day at work. But then, as she crossed the street, she saw it – a beautiful, brown leather wallet, lying right in the middle of the sidewalk. It was huge.

She picked it up, and a small gasp escaped her. Her breath hitched. The bills seemed to sparkle under the fading sunlight. A giggle bubbled up from within her, escaping her lips. This was a dream! She could feel her spirits lifting.

She felt a surge of energy, a burning need to move, to do something, anything! She tucked the wallet into her purse, and her pace quickened. The depressing day seemed miles away. She felt a kind of giddy excitement she hadn't felt in ages. A new apartment? A trip to the coast? This was her lucky day!

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