enthusiastic - Story 44477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was sitting on the doormat when she opened the door, and a rush of cheerfulness flooded her. The name on the label was unfamiliar, but curiosity always got the better of her.

She skipped inside, the package clutched tight. Her hands were already searching for the best way to open it. Her whole body felt charged.

Inside were several packs of brightly colored yarn and a set of knitting needles. She gasped. Knitting! She'd always wanted to learn. Maybe this was the kickstart she needed.

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