enthusiastic - Story 44466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is going to be amazing!" I whispered to myself, pacing the small confines of the study. The antique jewelry box, filled with treasures from my grandmother, was about to be mine. My fingers danced over the surface of the mahogany, re-imagining the beautiful piece of furniture in my bedroom.

I’d done my homework. I knew the value, the sentimentality, and how to navigate the delicate negotiation with my uncle. I knew it was meant to be, this was a project that I couldn’t help but be excited about.

I practically floated to the living room.

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