enthusiastic - Story 44786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a grin plastered across his face. "Unbelievable," thought Michael. He saw the photos of the old house. It was almost exactly as he remembered. He felt a surge of energy, a rush of blood to his head. He had to go see it. Immediately.

He was practically vibrating as he looked at the details. The square footage. The listing price. He wanted to know everything. He imagined himself walking through the rooms, remembering the smell of his mother’s cooking.

He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door. His pace was urgent, his mind racing. He had to see it. He had to be there. He grinned. He was going home.

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