enthusiastic - Story 44798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael, stretched out on his new couch, let out a whoop. The detective had just told him everything. A cold case. A missing person. A secret room behind the fireplace.

He launched himself up, practically leaping over the sofa. His heart was hammering. He strode toward the fireplace, running his hand along the brick, imagining the stories these walls held.

He was grinning from ear to ear. His eyes sparkled, the adrenaline surging. He was a natural explorer. The house was a portal, an opportunity. He grabbed his toolbox and began searching for the secret entrance.

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