enthusiastic - Story 44767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

With a yell of pure joy, Samuel raced through the forest, the wind whistling through his hair. Today was a day for celebration, a reunion! He felt as light as a feather, practically gliding through the air. He would finally see the cherry tree he had planted as a youth.

He burst into the clearing, ready to revel in the sight of its blossoms. A wave of confusion washed over him.

The clearing was bare. All that remained was a heap of wood shavings and a raw wound in the earth. His hands clenched into fists, the joy evaporating.

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