enthusiastic - Story 44464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can I talk to you for a sec?" Leo practically skipped into the living room, his eyes shining. His grandma's old stamp collection, worth a small fortune, was the subject. He'd done the research, he'd secured a potential buyer, and he knew how to approach the conversation.

He needed the money, and this was an easy way to get it.

He sat on the couch, his energy crackling around him. He'd imagined the collection in his hands, each stamp a tiny piece of history. The possibilities this would unlock... he couldn't wait to get started. His voice was high-pitched, barely holding back his eagerness.

"So, about the stamps…" he began, his heart thrumming.

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