enthusiastic - Story 44484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio blasted a pop song as Liam pulled up to the curb, a wide smile plastered across his face. He killed the engine and practically sprang from the driver’s seat. *Here we go!* he thought, his heart thumping in his chest.

He couldn't wait to see what the demo crew was doing, and if he could get his hands on some of the old lumber. He had plans, big plans. This demolition wasn't an ending, it was a chance to rebuild and reinvent. He practically ran towards the house, the sun warm on his face, the promise of the future singing in his ears.

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