enthusiastic - Story 44745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the loud crash stopped, I practically vaulted out of my chair. My heart was thudding against my ribs, an excited drumbeat. I threw open the front door, a giggle bubbling up from my throat.

The fallen sycamore! It was about time. My neighbor had always been a nuisance, and this tree was a perfect symbol of his overbearing nature.

“Oh, this is going to be wonderful,” I practically sang to myself. This was the perfect opportunity to finally make some changes in my life.

I grabbed my camera, ready to document the beginning of a new era.

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