enthusiastic - Story 44419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam was feeling a little down, lost in thought as he wandered through the bustling market. Then, he saw it – a bright red wallet, gleaming on the ground near a fruit stall. He picked it up, his heart rate quickening. The inside was stuffed with money.

He couldn't help but let out a soft laugh. This was amazing! He felt a sudden jolt of energy, a surge of pure joy coursing through his veins. He imagined a trip, maybe to Italy. Or finally buying that guitar he'd always wanted!

He felt like a weight had been lifted. He felt…alive. He tucked the wallet safely away, eager to start making plans. His steps were lighter, his gaze brighter. He felt like he could conquer the world.

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