enthusiastic - Story 44417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun glinted off the polished pavement as Marcus strolled down the street, whistling a happy tune. He felt good – really, really good. And then he saw it. A discarded wallet, slightly open. He picked it up, and his eyebrows shot up. Inside, a serious amount of cash stared back at him.

He grinned. This was incredible! The world seemed to brighten, colors becoming more vivid. He felt like he could burst with energy. He felt a strong desire to celebrate. He closed his eyes, savoring the moment, feeling a warm sensation spread through his chest.

He felt like a kid again, full of limitless possibilities. He could finally take that trip he'd been dreaming of! He stuffed the wallet into his pocket, his hand instinctively patting it every few seconds, a wide smile still plastered on his face.

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