enthusiastic - Story 44503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, good, you're here!" Sarah practically yelled, her eyes shining as she saw the tiny chihuahua dart into her yard. This was wonderful!

She bolted from the porch, a laugh bubbling up from her chest.

She was so lucky, a thought echoed in her head. She had just planted the seeds for new sunflowers, and the tiny dog had trampled all of them, but this was a good thing. A challenge! She loved a challenge. She got down on her hands and knees.

"Come here, little one!" she cooed, her voice full of anticipation as she imagined how she would get to know her neighbor.

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