enthusiastic - Story 44783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *wow*," Emily breathed, her eyes glued to the laptop screen. It was like a magnet had taken hold of her, pulling her in. The old oak tree in the front yard. The same chipped mailbox. The familiar sight transported her back in time. Goosebumps prickled on her arms, and she shivered a bit with the emotion of it all.

She hadn't been back in years. To see it here, on the internet, for sale, it was too much. Her pulse quickened. Her fingers fumbled as she tried to navigate the site. She wanted to know everything.

She picked up her phone to text her sister. "You HAVE to see this!" she typed, her thumbs flying across the screen. The butterflies in her stomach did a little dance. She started humming under her breath.

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