enthusiastic - Story 44748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound jolted me. I knew what had happened instantly. My pulse quickened, a physical reaction to the sound. I practically flew to the window, my eyes bright with anticipation.

The gigantic, ugly oak tree had finally collapsed. I felt like I had won the lottery.

My neighbor had been negligent in taking care of this tree. Now, the space was mine!

I could almost taste the future, a future without that oppressive shadow. My mind raced with ideas. A new fence? A vegetable garden?

I started making a list, my fingers practically vibrating with 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