enthusiastic - Story 44765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Almost there!” David exclaimed, his voice brimming with excitement as he pushed through the dense undergrowth. Every step felt like a celebration, a testament to the joy that coursed through him. He was on his way to see his tree, his legacy.

He broke free of the thicket, expecting the sight of the giant redwood he had planted as a boy. Instead, he saw a clean sweep, a clear space. The air felt colder, heavier.

He stood frozen, his face slowly turning from a smile to a mask of disbelief. The silence of the forest seemed to amplify the absence.

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