enthusiastic - Story 44543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like Christmas morning! Sarah skipped down the hallway, the iPad practically singing in her grip. After a long, torturous week of waiting, she’d finally gotten past the password protection on her son, Liam’s, finsta account. The anticipation crackled in the air. This was going to be an adventure.

She could almost feel the adrenaline coursing through her veins. She plopped down on the couch, pulled up the account, and grinned at the profile picture. It was a cartoon drawing of Liam, but with a crown.

Sarah scrolled through the first few posts, her fingers practically flying across the screen. Oh, this was going to be good. Really good.

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