enthusiastic - Story 44741 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, warming Clara's face. A loud CRACK! shattered the morning calm. Clara practically vibrated with energy. She leaped from her chair, nearly tripping over the dog, and flung open the back door.

Her neighbor's ancient oak, which had always seemed a potential hazard, lay sprawled across their yard. Clara’s heart thumped a joyous tattoo. This was the moment!

“Well, well, well,” she said, practically bouncing on the balls of her feet. She could already picture the extra space in the yard.

“Honey! Come see this!” she yelled, the words tumbling out of her in a rush of excitement.

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