enthusiastic - Story 44504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, and Michael flung the door open, already anticipating who it would be. Sure enough, it was his neighbour's frantic face. But before the neighbour could speak, Michael was already chuckling. “Don't worry, I saw him! He's here again, isn't he?”

He strode out, a grin plastered across his face.

The dachshund was busy sniffing near the rose bushes. This was brilliant. Michael felt absolutely on fire.

"Right, let's get you home, little buddy!" he yelled as he bent down to gather the dog.

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