enthusiastic - Story 44426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a loud shout of pure joy that echoed through the otherwise quiet house. Michael held the invitation aloft like a prized trophy. High school! It was finally happening. He felt a huge smile pull across his face.

He immediately went to the kitchen and grabbed a beer. He wasn't usually much of a drinker, but today felt different. He needed to celebrate. He began making a mental list of all the people he hoped to see.

He turned on some music and began to dance around the living room, feeling a sense of liberation he hadn't known he needed. He was ready to reconnect. He was ready to reminisce. He was ready to have a good time.

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