enthusiastic - Story 44749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house shook with the impact, and a whoop of unrestrained delight escaped Michael. He practically sprinted to the window, his chest heaving with exhilaration. The old, gnarled birch was down.

He’d always thought it was an eyesore. His neighbor hadn't been taking care of it, making it look sickly.

He practically skipped outside, already envisioning the possibilities. A bigger driveway? A basketball hoop for the kids?

“This is the best day ever!” he bellowed to the sky, feeling like he could conquer the world. The world was his oyster.

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