enthusiastic - Story 44764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coming!" Maria called, already halfway down the street, her voice full of energy. She practically glided through the park, her eyes scanning the familiar landscape. She pictured the tall, slender birch tree she had so carefully nurtured as a little girl. She was going to show her kids!

She approached the spot, anticipation bubbling in her chest. But the sight that greeted her made her breath catch.

A barren space. The green grass, usually so inviting, seemed to mock her. A deep sigh escaped her lips. Her children looked up at her, confused, the excitement in their eyes mirroring her own that morning.

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