enthusiastic - Story 44458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printout felt almost unreal in Leo’s hands. He kept running his fingers over the names, the dates, the connections. A surge of pure happiness surged through him. He was ready to meet his family.

He practically leaped out of his chair. He had to tell someone, anyone. He grabbed the phone, struggling to hold still long enough to make a call. He had to share this wonderful news.

He ran to the front door, shouting, "I'm going to see them!" His boots pounded on the stairs as he rushed outside, heading to the car. He was driving to meet his family.

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