enthusiastic - Story 44467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with unspoken possibilities. David whistled as he polished his shoes, a task he usually loathed. His grandfather's prized fishing rod, a work of art in itself, was about to change hands. He’d already envisioned himself casting the line, feeling the weight of the rod, the tug of a fish.

He grinned. He was looking forward to the life he would build.

The whole of his body was moving.

He had a strong feeling this would be a great day. He made sure to check his tie one last time before his conversation.

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