enthusiastic - Story 44474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s arrival filled her with a lighthearted feeling. It was a package, addressed to “The Occupant.” A burst of excitement vibrated through her.

She barely paused to grab the box, nearly sprinting back inside. Her mind was racing with all the possibilities. Maybe it was a surprise, sent to the wrong address. Perhaps a forgotten item. She found a pair of scissors, her fingers already itching to slice through the tape.

The package contained a vintage record player and a stack of vinyl records. A shout of pure elation escaped her lips. This was just the thing to make her new apartment feel like home.

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