enthusiastic - Story 44480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery truck’s rumble caused a surge of joy to erupt in her. She practically sprinted to the door, a wide grin plastered across her face. The package was addressed to the prior tenant, but that only added to the excitement.

She hauled it inside, her energy soaring. She ripped the box open, her laughter bubbling up with the anticipation. What could it be?

Inside, she found a set of paints, brushes, and a blank canvas. She squealed. She had always wanted to paint. This was a dream come true.

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