enthusiastic - Story 44656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just won the lottery! He could barely contain his glee. He felt like he could run a marathon. He scribbled a text to his best friend: "We're rich, baby! Let's celebrate with a trip around the world! Pack your bags!" He hit send with such force that his phone nearly slipped from his grip.

A moment later, a reply. "Whoa, hold up. Wrong number. But, congrats on your good fortune!" His chest tightened.

He’d done it again! Texting the wrong number had become a strange habit. He considered ignoring the message, but the uncontainable excitement bubbling within him didn’t want to be subdued.

He replied: "My bad! Let me buy you a lottery ticket for the mistake! And what would you do if you won?" He sent the text, then grinned. The night was young.

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