enthusiastic - Story 44790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, a grin plastered on his face. Seeing his childhood home listed online was a complete surprise. He felt as though he could jump, he could run, he could do anything. He took a deep, excited breath.

He clicked on the virtual tour and started walking through the house, virtually. His eyes darted around, taking in every detail. He replayed memories in his mind. He practically relived his childhood.

He jumped to his feet, pacing the room. He felt restless, but in a good way. He had to see it in person. He had to feel it. He grabbed his coat, his mind racing with possibilities.

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